The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 39
Something seemed to have gone wrong, and then he suddenly remembered Bellah.
Who acts: Something, Houarn · What happens: seem, go, remember · To what, where: Bellah
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, Houarn), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remembered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remembered | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remembered | nsubj |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 13 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remembered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Something | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive · perfect | Something not said here | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | Houarn | Bellah | then | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bellah=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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