The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 37
But to climb up there seemed impossible.
What happens: climb up, seem
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 seemed | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 climb | mark |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climb | compound:prt |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 climb | advmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | to-infinitive | there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | impossible property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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