The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 83

The load was not, in point of fact, very heavy, although it seemed so to his imagination, and he moved slowly along till he found a safe hiding-place for it.

Who acts: load, it, friend · What happens: not be, seem, move, find, imagine · To what, where: point, imagination, safe hiding place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (load, it, friend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 load	det
2	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 point	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 point	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 point	case
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fact	case
9	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heavy	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 heavy	advmod
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 point	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 seemed	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heavy	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 imagination	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 imagination	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 imagination	nmod:poss
20	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moved	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 moved	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 moved	nsubj
24	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	conj
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 moved	advmod
26	along	along	ADP	_	29 found	mark
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 found	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 moved	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 place	det
31	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 place	amod
32	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hiding	punct
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 place	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the load		point	of fact	tree rules
2	seem	past	it	friend's imagination			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme imagination=Attribute
3	move	past	friend			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	friend	a safe hiding place		for load	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for it=Beneficiary
5	imagine		friend				nom imagination «cognition transitive»: 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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