The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 75

It was a dark patch, and seemed, as she looked, to grow longer and longer, and to be moving slowly towards the cushions on which the prince was lying.

Who acts: room, dark patch, princess, prince · What happens: be, seem, look, grow, move, lie · To what, where: dark patch, cushions

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, dark patch, princess, prince), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 patch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 patch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 patch	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patch	amod
5	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seemed	cc
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 patch	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	conj
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 grow	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 longer	cc
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 longer	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moving	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 moving	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	23 moving	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 moving	aux
23	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seemed	xcomp
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	23 moving	advmod
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 cushions	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cushions	det
27	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 moving	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lying	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lying	aux
33	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 cushions	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 patch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	room	a dark patch			tree rules
2	seem	past	a dark patch not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	look	past	princess				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	grow	to-infinitive	princess not said here			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	move	to-infinitive · progressive	a dark patch not said here		the cushions	slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards cushion=Trajectory
6	lie	past · progressive	the prince		the cushions		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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