The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 48

It would be horrible to be eaten up here in the daylight, thought Walter to himself; and the more he thought about it the uglier and grayer the old kiln looked, and the more horrible and dreadful it seemed to become the food of wolves.

Who acts: It, Walter, old kiln · What happens: be, eat up, think, look, seem, become · To what, where: daylight, Walter, food

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Walter, old kiln), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 horrible	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 horrible	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 horrible	cop
4	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 eaten	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 horrible	csubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 eaten	compound:prt
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 eaten	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 daylight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 daylight	det
12	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	conj
15	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 thought	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 thought	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 horrible	parataxis
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 uglier	det
27	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 thought	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grayer	cc
29	grayer	gray	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 uglier	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 kiln	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 kiln	amod
32	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 horrible	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 horrible	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 more	det
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 horrible	advmod
38	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 looked	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dreadful	cc
40	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 horrible	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seemed	nsubj
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 horrible	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 become	mark
44	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seemed	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 food	det
46	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 become	xcomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 wolves	case
48	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 food	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 horrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	It				horrible property	tree rules
2	eat up	to-infinitive · passive				the daylight; here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
3	think speech: other	past		Walter	Walter			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot walter=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Walter				about corner; ugly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	look	past	the old kiln					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	become	to-infinitive		the food of wolves				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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