The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 106

He seemed to be surrounded by dangers, and it was only the power of the maiden who helped him through it all.

Who acts: door, dangers, bed, maiden · What happens: seem, surround, be, help · To what, where: power, door, bed

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (door, dangers, bed, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 surrounded	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 surrounded	aux:pass
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 dangers	case
7	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 surrounded	obl:agent
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 power	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 power	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 power	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 power	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 power	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 power	det
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 maiden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 power	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 helped	nsubj
19	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 maiden	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helped	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helped	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 it	det
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	door					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	surround	to-infinitive · passive	dangers					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	bed	the power			of the maiden	tree rules
4	help	past	the maiden		door	bed		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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