The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 127

It seemed as if she were going to do something wrong, but she only wanted to know if it were little Kay.

Who acts: It, Gerda, light · What happens: seem, go, do, want, know, be · To what, where: something, little Kay

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Gerda, light), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 do	obj
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 wanted	advmod
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 know	mark
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 Kay	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Kay	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Kay	cop
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Kay	amod
23	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 know	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seem	past	It		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Gerda		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	want	past	Gerda		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	light	little Kay	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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