The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 94

Neither time nor reason seemed to lighten his sorrow, and the sight of all the familiar faces and things about him only served to remind him of his loss.

Who acts: time, sight, godmother · What happens: seem, lighten, serve, remind, sorrow, sight · To what, where: sorrow, godmother, familiar faces

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, sight, godmother), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 reason	cc
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	conj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lighten	mark
7	lighten	lighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seemed	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sorrow	nmod:poss
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lighten	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 served	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 served	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sight	det
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 served	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 faces	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 faces	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 faces	det
17	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 faces	amod
18	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sight	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 things	cc
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faces	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 things	nmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 served	advmod
24	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 remind	mark
26	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 served	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 remind	iobj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 loss	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 loss	nmod:poss
30	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remind	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	neither time nor reason				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	lighten	to-infinitive	neither time nor reason not said here	godmother's sorrow			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient
3	serve	past	the sight of all familiar faces and things about godmother				tree rules
4	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	the sight of all familiar faces and things about godmother not said here		godmother	of godmother's loss	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of loss=Topic
5	sorrow		godmother				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	sight			all familiar faces and things about godmother			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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