The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 130

But what seemed very strange was that those people who came out of the house were pale and thin, and their clothes were torn, and hanging in rags about them.

Who acts: people · What happens: seem, come out, be, tear, hang · To what, where: clothes, rags

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 seemed	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 strange	advmod
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pale	amod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pale	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 pale	mark
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pale	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pale	cop
17	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thin	cc
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pale	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 torn	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 torn	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 clothes	nmod:poss
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 torn	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 torn	aux:pass
25	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seemed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hanging	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hanging	cc
28	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 seemed	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 rags	case
30	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hanging	obl
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rags	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come out	past	that people			of the house; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	that people			pale property	tree rules
4	be		that people not said here				tree rules
5	tear	past · passive		people's clothes			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	hang	gerund			rags about people		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rag=Location

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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