The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 23

To his delight it seemed thick and stout.

Who acts: it, cat · What happens: seem, delight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, cat), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 delight	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 delight	nmod:poss
3	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seemed	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stout	cc
8	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thick	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it					to cat's delight; thick property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	delight		cat						nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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