The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 27
This does not seem much, but it sufficed Maie for a herb plot.
Who acts: This, sun · What happens: not seem, suffice · To what, where: much, Maie
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, sun), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seem | advmod |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seem | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sufficed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sufficed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sufficed | nsubj |
| 9 | sufficed | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | conj |
| 10 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sufficed | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 plot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plot | det |
| 13 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plot | compound |
| 14 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sufficed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | present · do-support | This | much | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | suffice | past | sun | Maie | for a herb plot | 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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