The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 57

It seemed to Saphir that this was exactly the place where the birds would choose to live, and he determined not to quit the wood until he had examined it from end to end.

Who acts: It, this, birds, bird · What happens: seem, be, choose, live, determine, not quit · To what, where: Saphir, place, wood, end

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, this, birds, bird), 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	to	to	ADP	_	4 Saphir	case
4	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 place	mark
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 place	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	cop
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 place	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 choose	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 choose	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 choose	aux
15	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 place	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 live	mark
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 choose	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 determined	nsubj
21	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 quit	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 quit	mark
24	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 quit	obj
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 examined	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 examined	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 examined	aux
30	examined	examine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 quit	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 examined	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 end	case
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 examined	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 end	case
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 examined	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		Saphir			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	this	the place			exactly property	tree rules
3	choose	would	the birds					tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	the birds not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	determine	past	bird					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not quit	to-infinitive	bird not said here	the wood				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Source
7	examine	past · perfect	bird	wood		from end; to end		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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