The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 103

And if the wolf had made the girl quake with terror, it seemed like a lamb beside this dreadful lion.

Who acts: it · What happens: make, seem · To what, where: wolf

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 seemed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quake	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quake	compound
9	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 terror	case
11	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quake	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 lamb	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lamb	det
17	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	obl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 lion	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 lion	det
20	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lion	amod
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the wolf					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary quake=Product
2	seem	past	it					like a lamb; beside this dreadful lion	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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