The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 59

All that they could see was a vast plain, that looked as if it had been there since the beginning of the world.

Who acts: people, vast plain, plain · What happens: see, be, look, begin · To what, where: vast plain, world

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, vast plain, plain), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 plain	det:predet
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 All	advcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plain	det
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	acl:relcl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 there	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 there	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 there	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 there	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 looked	advcl
19	since	since	ADP	_	21 beginning	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beginning	det
21	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 there	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beginning	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		all vast plain			tree rules
3	look	past	all vast plain				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past · perfect	plain		since the beginning of the world	there property	tree rules
5	begin			the world			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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