The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 126

‘It seems to me they are trying to rule him and the kingdom as well, and the old man says they are not fit to do it.’

Who acts: It, Costan, old man · What happens: seem, try, rule, say, not be, do · To what, where: me, brother, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Costan, old man), 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	_	3 seems	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seems	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trying	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trying	aux
8	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seems	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rule	mark
10	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rule	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kingdom	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 him	conj
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 rule	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 says	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	conj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fit	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fit	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fit	advmod
26	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 says	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fit	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	try	present · progressive	Costan				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	Costan not said here	brother			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
4	say speech: assert	present	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	Costan			fit property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	Costan not said here	kingdom			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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