The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 73
Without seeming to have noticed anything, he said, in a confidential way:
Who acts: King · What happens: seem, notice, say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (King), 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeming | mark |
| 2 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 noticed | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 noticed | aux |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 seeming | xcomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeming | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | gerund | King not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive · perfect | King not said here | anything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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