The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 75

Short as Miranda’s absence had been, it had seemed like a hundred years to the King of the Sheep.

Who acts: absence, Miranda · What happens: be, have, seem, absent

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 (absence, Miranda), 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	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	parataxis
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 been	mark
3	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 absence	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Miranda	case
5	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 been	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 been	aux
7	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 had	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 been	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Short	parataxis
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 years	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 years	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Sheep	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sheep	det
21	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 King	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	be	past · perfect	Miranda's absence		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	absence		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past		year	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	absent		Miranda		nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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