The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 93
‘It does seem odd, doesn’t it?’ answered he.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, not do, answer · To what, where: last, ram · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | conj |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 does | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 does | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present · do-support | It | odd property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | last | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | ram | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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