The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 55
Now when the emperor lay down in it he seemed as if he had grown a hundred times heavier than usual, yet he felt a kind of calm that was quite new to him.
Who acts: emperor, calm · What happens: lie down, seem, grow, feel, be · To what, where: room, kind, emperor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, calm), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 lay | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 grown | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 grown | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seemed | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 times | nummod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heavier | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grown | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 usual | case |
| 21 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heavier | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 23 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kind | det |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 calm | case |
| 29 | calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kind | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 new | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 new | cop |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 new | advmod |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 calm | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 new | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the emperor | room | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | emperor | now | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | grow a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | emperor | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | emperor | a kind of calm | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | calm | emperor | new 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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