The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 36
The old woman, however, seemed uneasy, and said to Thakane: “I feel as if someone was watching us.
Who acts: old woman, someone · What happens: seem, say, feel, watch · To what, where: Thakane, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, someone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seemed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Thakane | case |
| 13 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 watching | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 watching | mark |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 watching | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 watching | aux |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 feel | advcl |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the old woman | however, uneasy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | Thakane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to thakane=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | the old woman = woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | watch in a quote | past · progressive | someone | us | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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