The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 54

Now this bargain seemed to please the old fellow so much that he spun round like a top, and sang so loud that the whole wood rang with his voice.

Who acts: bargain, whole wood · What happens: seem, please, spin round, sing, ring · To what, where: old fellow

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 (bargain, whole wood), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bargain	det
3	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 please	mark
6	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellow	amod
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 please	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	6 please	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 spun	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spun	nsubj
14	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 please	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 spun	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spun	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sang	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sang	cc
21	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sang	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 rang	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wood	amod
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rang	nsubj
28	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 loud	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 voice	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 voice	nmod:poss
31	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rang	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	this bargain		now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	please	to-infinitive	this bargain not said here	the old fellow			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fellow=Experiencer
3	spin round	past	bargain			like a top; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	this bargain not said here			loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ring	past	the whole wood			with wood's voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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