The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 14

The forests, the hills, and the rivers all seemed exactly like the ones he had left.

Who acts: rivers, thing · What happens: seem, leave · To what, where: forests, ones

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rivers, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forests	det
2	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hills	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forests	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seemed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rivers	det
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	nsubj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 seemed	advmod
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forests	acl:relcl
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 seemed	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 ones	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ones	det
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 left	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 ones	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the rivers	the forests and the hills not said here				like the ones; all, exactly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Attribute
2	leave	past · perfect	thing	the ones not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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