The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 33

It seemed to the merchant very strange that no snow had fallen in the avenue, which was entirely composed of orange trees, covered with flowers and fruit.

Who acts: It, snow, orange trees · What happens: seem, fall, compose, cover · To what, where: avenue, orange trees

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, snow, orange trees), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 merchant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 strange	advmod
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 fallen	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fallen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fallen	aux
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 strange	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 avenue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 avenue	det
15	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fallen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 composed	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 composed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 composed	aux:pass
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	20 composed	advmod
20	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 avenue	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 composed	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 covered	punct
25	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 trees	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 flowers	case
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 covered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fruit	cc
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flowers	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			to the merchant; strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past · perfect	no snow		the avenue		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in avenue=Location
3	compose	past · passive	orange trees	the avenue		entirely property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
4	cover	participle		orange trees not said here		with flowers and fruit	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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