The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 77

So uneventful was their life that it almost seemed as if it would go on in this way always, without let or hindrance.

Who acts: it, air · What happens: be, seem, go on · To what, where: uneventful life, way

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, air), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 uneventful	advmod
2	uneventful	uneventful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 life	cop
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	dislocated
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seemed	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 seemed	advmod
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	without	without	ADP	_	22 let	case
22	let	let	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 hindrance	cc
24	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		stones's uneventful life			tree rules
2	seem	past	it			without let or hindrance; almost property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	go on a condition, not said to happen	would	air		this way	always property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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