The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 126
And it seemed to him as if he heard a faint sound far off, but he did not know from what direction it came.
Who acts: it, master, direction · What happens: seem, hear, not know, come · To what, where: master, faint sound, direction
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, master, direction), 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 | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 11 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | amod |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 off | advmod |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 know | obj |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 what | nsubj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 direction | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | master | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | master | a faint sound | off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past | direction | direction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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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