The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 27
Old though she was, it seemed impossible to tire her.
Who acts: bade, it · What happens: be, seem, tire · To what, where: bade
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, it), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seemed | advcl |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Old | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tire | mark |
| 10 | tire | tire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 impossible | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tire | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | bade | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | impossible property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tire | to-infinitive | bade | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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