The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 4

It was a well just like other wells, and it seemed strange that the Fairy of the Dawn should have it in her own chamber; yet anyone could tell it had been there for hundreds of years.

Who acts: middle, it, Fairy, anyone · What happens: be, seem, have, tell · To what, where: other wells, middle, own chamber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, it, Fairy, anyone), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wells	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wells	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 well	det
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 wells	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 wells	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 wells	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wells	amod
8	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wells	acl:relcl
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Dawn	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Dawn	det
19	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fairy	nmod
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 strange	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 chamber	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chamber	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chamber	amod
26	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 tell	cc
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 tell	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 there	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 there	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 there	cop
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 tell	ccomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 hundreds	case
37	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tell	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 years	case
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hundreds	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	middle			like other wells; well property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it	other wells not said here		strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme well=Attribute
3	have	should	the Fairy of the Dawn	middle	Fairy's own chamber		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	could	anyone			for hundreds of years	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past · perfect	middle			there property	tree rules

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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