The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 70

But now I really do seem to see something.”

Who acts: I · What happens: seem, see · To what, where: something

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 (I), 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	_	6 seem	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 seem	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seem	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 seem	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seem	aux
6	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seem	xcomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 see	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present · do-support	I				now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	something					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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