The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

But no one seemed to see him or smell him; so he spend the rest of the night in peace.

Who acts: one, dog · What happens: seem, see, smell, spend · To what, where: dog, rest, peace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 smell	cc
9	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 smell	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 spend	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 spend	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spend	nsubj
14	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 peace	case
21	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	no one			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	see	to-infinitive	no one not said here	dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	smell	infinitive	no one not said here	dog		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	spend	present	dog	the rest of the night	peace	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset

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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