The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 33

He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a man who appeared in every window, and the Prince, fancying that he saw in this man some resemblance to himself, began to be deeply interested.

Who acts: prince, pictures, man · What happens: find, seem, be, appear, fancy, see · To what, where: scenes, life, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pictures, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 seemed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pictures	det
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 scenes	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 scenes	cop
9	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 life	det
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scenes	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 life	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 appeared	nsubj
17	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appeared	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fancying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fancying	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fancying	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fancying	punct
26	fancying	fancy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 saw	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fancying	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obl
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 resemblance	det
34	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 resemblance	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 began	punct
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	42 interested	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 interested	cop
41	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	42 interested	advmod
42	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 began	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	prince				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	seem	past	the pictures				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		scenes	the life of a man		tree rules
4	appear	past	a man		every window		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location
5	fancy	gerund	the Prince				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past	prince			in this man some resemblance to prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	begin	past	prince not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	is	to-infinitive	prince not said here			deeply, interested property	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 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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