The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 67

Yet while they were burning the empress seemed to hear the same words, which she alone could understand.

Who acts: beds, heap · What happens: burn, seem, hear, understand · To what, where: empress, same words

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 (beds, heap), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 seemed	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 burning	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burning	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seemed	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 empress	det
7	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	obj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 words	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hear	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 understand	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 understand	nsubj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 understand	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 understand	aux
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 words	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	beds = bed	the empress		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent empress=Theme
2	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	hear	to-infinitive		the same words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	understand	could	heap	the same words	alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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