The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 59

A river, yet not a river, for it seemed not to flow over the earth, but to go where it liked, and to leave no trace of its passage.

Who acts: river, breath · What happens: seem, not flow, go, like, leave, pass · To what, where: earth, trace

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 (river, breath), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 river	punct
4	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 river	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 river	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 river	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 seemed	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 flow	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 flow	mark
14	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flow	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	ccomp
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 liked	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 liked	nsubj
24	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 go	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leave	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 leave	mark
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	parataxis
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 trace	det
30	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leave	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 passage	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 passage	nmod:poss
33	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trace	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	a river yet a river			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	not flow	to-infinitive	a river yet a river not said here		the earth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location
3	go	to-infinitive	a river yet a river not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like	past	breath			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	leave	to-infinitive		no trace of breath's passage		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme
6	pass		breath			nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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