The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 1
So Lyman bent over the well lower than before, and seemed busier than ever.
Who acts: Lyman · What happens: bend, seem
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lyman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bent | advmod |
| 2 | Lyman | Lyman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 7 lower | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lower | det |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lower | advmod |
| 7 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bent | advcl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 lower | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | cc |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 13 | busier | busy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 busier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Lyman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | Lyman not said here | busy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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