The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 51
‘Why, I seem to see something moving in that net I set.
Who acts: I · What happens: seem, see, move, set · To what, where: something, net
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 something | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 net | det |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moving | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 net | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | I | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | that net | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in net=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | set | present | I | that net not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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