The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 31
After the sea-voyage it seemed to the King that the Queen had altered very much in many ways, and not for the better.
Who acts: it, Queen · What happens: seem, alter · To what, where: many ways
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Queen), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 voyage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voyage | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voyage | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 altered | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 altered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 altered | aux |
| 15 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 altered | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ways | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ways | amod |
| 20 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 altered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 better | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 better | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 better | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 better | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 better | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | after the sea voyage | to the King; good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | alter | past · perfect | the Queen | many ways | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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