The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29

Gerda knew every flower, but although there were so many, it seemed to her as if one were not there, though she could not remember which.

Who acts: Gerda, many, it, one · What happens: know, be, seem, not be, not remember · To what, where: flower, Gerda

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 (Gerda, many, it, one), 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
7	although	although	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seemed	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 there	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 there	mark
19	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 there	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 seemed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remember	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 remember	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 remember	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remember	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 remember	advmod
28	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	parataxis
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 remember	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Gerda	every flower				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	be	past	many			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	it		Gerda			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	one				there property	tree rules
5	not remember	could	Gerda					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=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 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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