The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2

This seemed to the girls more and more wonderful, but tired and sleepy as they were, they thought no more about it, but crept into the little beds, drew the coverlets over their heads and were soon asleep.

Who acts: This, girls · What happens: seem, be, think, creep, draw · To what, where: more, little beds, coverlets, heads

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, girls), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 girls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seemed	obl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 seemed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wonderful	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 wonderful	advmod
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 more	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 tired	cc
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sleepy	cc
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tired	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 were	nsubj
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tired	conj
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 thought	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 more	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crept	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 crept	cc
27	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 beds	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beds	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beds	amod
31	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crept	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drew	punct
33	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 crept	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 coverlets	det
35	coverlets	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drew	obj
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 heads	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heads	nmod:poss
38	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drew	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 asleep	cc
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 asleep	cop
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 asleep	advmod
42	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crept	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	This			to the girls	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	girls = girl				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	girls = girl	more		about side	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
4	creep	past			the little beds		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
5	draw	past		the coverlets	girls's heads		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme
6	is	past				asleep, soon property	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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