The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 110

‘Poor thing! poor thing!’ she said, ‘they seem to have gone mad; it was awful to behold.’

Who acts: queen, things, corner · What happens: say, seem, go, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, things, corner), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seem	nsubj
14	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 gone	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seem	xcomp
18	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gone	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 awful	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 awful	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 awful	cop
22	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 behold	case
24	behold	behold	INTJ	_	22 awful	discourse
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seem	present	things = thing		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	go	to-infinitive · perfect	things = thing not said here	mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	corner	awful 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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