The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 73

At least, that was what the Welwa seemed like to Petru.

Who acts: that, Welwa · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: least

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 (that, Welwa), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 seemed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 seemed	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Welwa	det
8	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 Petru	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Petru	case
12	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that						tree rules
2	seem	past	the Welwa			least		like Petru	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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