The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 6

The cave was so deep that it seemed to Virgilius as if it must run far into the heart of the mountain, and he thought he would like to see if it came out anywhere on the other side.

Who acts: cave, it, boy · What happens: be, seem, run, think, like, see · To what, where: Virgilius, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, it, boy), 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 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seemed	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Virgilius	case
10	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 run	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 run	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 run	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 run	aux
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 run	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heart	det
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 run	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mountain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountain	det
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	parataxis
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thought	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 like	xcomp
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 see	advcl
35	out	out	ADV	_	36 anywhere	advmod
36	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 came	advmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 side	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 side	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 side	amod
40	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anywhere	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cave		deep property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it	Virgilius		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	run a condition, not said to happen	must	cave		into the heart of the mountain result; far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into heart=Result
4	think speech: other	past	boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like	would	boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	come out a condition, not said to happen	past	cave		anywhere property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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