The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 61

He seems to be the captain, and looks as if he had come through many toils.’

Who acts: Thief · What happens: seem, be, look, come · To what, where: captain, many toils

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thief), 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 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 captain	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 captain	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captain	det
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seems	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looks	cc
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	conj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 looks	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 toils	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 toils	amod
17	toils	toil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	present	Thief			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	Thief not said here	the captain		tree rules
3	look	present	Thief not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	past · perfect	Thief		many toils	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through toil=Initial_Location

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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