The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 38
It seems that you are a lion at present, I mean you to be a sheep.’
Who acts: It, you, I · What happens: seem, be, mean · To what, where: lion, present, you, sheep
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, I), 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 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lion | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lion | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lion | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 present | case |
| 9 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lion | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mean | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 mean | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sheep | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sheep | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sheep | det |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mean | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a lion | present | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | I | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a sheep | 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 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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