The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 151

Suddenly the heat seemed to become less, and, in the distance, he saw a little hut on a hill.

Who acts: heat · What happens: seem, become, see · To what, where: little hut, hill

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 (heat), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 become	mark
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 become	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 distance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 distance	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hut	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hut	amod
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the heat			suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	become	to-infinitive	the heat not said here			less property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	heat	a little hut	a hill	in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus

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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