The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 112

Now the tree was quite covered; it seemed as if it had been quite forgotten.

Who acts: it · What happens: cover, seem, forget · To what, where: tree, ray

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 covered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 covered	advmod
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	conj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 forgotten	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 forgotten	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgotten	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forgotten	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 forgotten	aux:pass
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 forgotten	advmod
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the tree	now	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	forget a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		ray		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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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