The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 36

But his surprise was great to find that they represented the same scenes as the windows of the gallery, and what was more, that they seemed to be alive.

Who acts: surprise, pictures, prince · What happens: be, find, represent, seem, surprise · To what, where: same scenes · 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 (surprise, pictures, prince), 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	_	5 great	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 surprise	nmod:poss
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 great	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 great	cop
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 great	csubj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 represented	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 represented	nsubj
10	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 scenes	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scenes	amod
13	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 represented	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 windows	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 windows	det
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scenes	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 gallery	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gallery	det
19	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 windows	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 more	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 more	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 more	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 more	cop
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 represented	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seemed	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 more	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 alive	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 alive	cop
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seemed	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	prince's surprise		great property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	represent	past	pictures = picture	the same scenes	as the windows of the gallery	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent scene=Theme as window=Attribute
4	is	past			more property	tree rules
5	seem	past	pictures = picture			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	pictures = picture not said here		alive property	tree rules
7	surprise		prince			nom surprise «feeling 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 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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