The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 91

'It seems to me,' said the old fellow, 'that a boy should give way to an old man.'

Who acts: It, boy · What happens: seem, say, give · To what, where: me, old fellow, way, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, boy), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seems	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fellow	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fellow	amod
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fellow	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 fellow	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	seem	present	It		me	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the old fellow		tree rules
3	give	should	a boy	way	a old man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to man=Recipient

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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