The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 99
This seemed to Hans to be easy enough; so he agreed to enter the old man's service, and they set out together.
Who acts: This, Hans, pounds, old man · What happens: seem, be, agree, enter, set out, service · To what, where: Hans, service
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 (This, Hans, pounds, old man), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Hans | case |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 easy | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | cop |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 easy | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 agreed | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 agreed | nsubj |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enter | mark |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 service | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 agreed | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 set | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | This | Hans | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | This not said here | easy, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Hans | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | the old man's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | pounds = pound | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | service | the old man | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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