The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 148

A great big seal came into view, which she saw to be her father’s, and at the sight of it she paused for a minute half ashamed of what she was doing.

Who acts: great big seal, seal, corner · What happens: come, see, be, pause, do, sight · To what, where: view, sight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great big seal, seal, corner), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seal	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seal	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seal	amod
4	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 view	case
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saw	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 view	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	15 father	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 father	cop
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 paused	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 paused	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 sight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sight	det
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paused	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sight	nmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 paused	nsubj
25	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 half	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 half	det
28	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 half	compound
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 paused	obl
30	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 paused	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 what	case
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ashamed	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 doing	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 doing	aux
35	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a great big seal		view		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into view=Initial_Location
2	see	past	seal	view			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive				's corner's father	tree rules
4	pause	past	corner		the sight of sight	for a minute half	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sight=Location
5	do	past · progressive	corner				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sight			sight			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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