The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 40

The stranger looked at the sack of peas, and said, ‘But you must possess something; you are carrying this sack, which seems to be very heavy.’

Who acts: stranger, you, sack · What happens: look, say, possess, carry, seem, be · To what, where: something, sack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stranger, you, sack), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 peas	case
8	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sack	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 possess	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 possess	punct
14	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 possess	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 possess	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 possess	aux
17	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 possess	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 carrying	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carrying	aux
22	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looked	advcl
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 sack	det
24	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seems	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seems	nsubj
27	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sack	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	31 heavy	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 heavy	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 heavy	advmod
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 seems	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the stranger		at the sack of peas	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sack=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the stranger not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	possess	must	you	something		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
4	carry	present · progressive	you	this sack		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
5	seem	present	this sack			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	this sack not said here		heavy property	tree rules

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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