The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 154

Life seemed to stretch before her like a dark starless night.

Who acts: Life · What happens: seem, stretch

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life), 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	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stretch	mark
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stretch	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 night	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 night	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
10	starless	starless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretch	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Life						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	stretch	to-infinitive	Life not said here				before life; night		vn bend-45.2 «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 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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