The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 120
But now, this somehow did not seem so certain.
Who acts: this · What happens: not seem
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | _ | 8 seem | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 seem | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 seem | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 8 seem | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seem | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seem | advmod |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 certain | advmod |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seem | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | this | now | certain, somehow property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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