The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 73

He seldom stirred abroad, and every one that saw him remarked how silent and sorrowful he went about, like a person that was searching for some lost thing.

Who acts: prince, one, person · What happens: stir, see, remark, go about, search, lose · To what, where: prince

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, one, person), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stirred	nsubj
2	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	3 stirred	advmod
3	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 stirred	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remarked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 remarked	cc
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remarked	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stirred	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 silent	advmod
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remarked	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sorrowful	cc
16	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remarked	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stirred	parataxis
19	about	about	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 person	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 person	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 searching	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 searching	aux
26	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 person	acl:relcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 thing	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 thing	det
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 searching	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stir	past	prince		abroad, seldom property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	past	every one	prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	remark speech: assert	participle	every one		silent property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go about	past	prince		like a person; about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	search	past · progressive	a person		for some lost thing	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
6	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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