The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 78

It seemed as if they were walking in their sleep until they came out into the street again, when they could speak once more.

Who acts: It, wits · What happens: seem, walk, come out, speak, sleep · To what, where: sleep, street · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wits), 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 walking	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 walking	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 seemed	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nmod:poss
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	advcl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 street	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 speak	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 speak	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speak	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 speak	aux
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	conj
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 speak	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	wits = wit	wits's sleep			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory
3	come out	past	wits = wit	the street	again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	speak speech: other	could	wits = wit				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep		wits = wit				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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