The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 76

Seeing they did not appear in any formidable shape, I was more than once resolved to attack them, thinking that with my broad sword I could easily destroy them.

Who acts: shapes, I · What happens: see, not appear, be, resolve, attack, think · To what, where: formidable shape, shapes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shapes, I), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 appear	amod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appear	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 appear	advmod
5	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 shape	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 shape	det
8	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shape	amod
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appear	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 more	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 more	cop
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 appear	obj
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 resolved	mark
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 resolved	advmod
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 more	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 attack	mark
18	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 resolved	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 attack	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 attack	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 destroy	mark
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 sword	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sword	nmod:poss
25	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sword	amod
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 destroy	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 destroy	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 destroy	aux
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	30 destroy	advmod
30	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thinking	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 destroy	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not appear	past · do-support	shapes = shape		any formidable shape		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location
3	is	past	I			more property	tree rules
4	resolve	participle	I not said here			once property	tree rules
5	attack	to-infinitive	I not said here	shapes = shape			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	think speech: other	gerund	I not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	destroy	could	I	shapes = shape		with my broad sword; easily property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Instrument

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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