The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 8

Look on which side he would, nothing but ruin seemed to lie before him, and he became so gloomy, that his daughters were frightened, and did everything they could think of to cheer him up, but all to no purpose.

Who acts: you, nothing, emperor, daughters · What happens: look, seem, lie, become, frighten, do · To what, where: daughters, everything, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, nothing, emperor, daughters), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 side	det
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 would	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 side	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 seemed	nsubj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ruin	cc
10	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lie	mark
13	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lie	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 gloomy	advmod
21	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 frightened	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 frightened	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 daughters	nmod:poss
25	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 frightened	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 frightened	aux:pass
27	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 became	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 did	cc
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	conj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 did	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 think	aux
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 everything	acl:relcl
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 cheer	mark
36	to	to	PART	_	37 cheer	mark
37	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 think	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cheer	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 cheer	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 purpose	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 purpose	cc
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 purpose	det
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 purpose	case
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 purpose	det
45	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			to all purpose; on which side	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
2	seem	past	nothing				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	lie	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		before emperor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	become	past	emperor			gloomy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	frighten	past · passive		emperor's daughters			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	do	past	nothing not said here	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	could	daughters = daughter				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	cheer up	to-infinitive		emperor			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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