The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 85

There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself.

Who acts: nothing, girl · What happens: be, not seem, know, not sing, compose · To what, where: songs, part

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, girl), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seem	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seem	nsubj
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	3 nothing	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seem	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 songs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 songs	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 songs	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 songs	case
15	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sing	nsubj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 sing	advmod
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 sing	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sing	aux
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 songs	acl:relcl
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 sing	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 part	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 part	det
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 those	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Brittany	case
26	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 part	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 compose	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 compose	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 compose	aux
30	compose	compose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sing	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 compose	obj
32	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 compose	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there	as songs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not seem	past · do-support	girl				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	know	to-infinitive	girl not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not sing speech: express	could	girl	songs	every part of Brittany		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
5	compose	could	girl not said here	songs = song		girl obl	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result

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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