The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 60
Thick darkness surrounded them, yet it seemed to the prince as if their path led into still deeper depths.
Who acts: Thick darkness, it · What happens: surround, seem, lead · To what, where: arms, path, deeper depths
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 (Thick darkness, it), 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 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 darkness | amod |
| 2 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | conj |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 darkness | acl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surrounded | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
| 6 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | cc |
| 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 | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 path | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 path | nmod:poss |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | obl |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 path | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 depths | case |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 deeper | advmod |
| 19 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 depths | amod |
| 20 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 led | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | Thick darkness not said here | arms = arm | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | to the prince; as arms's path | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | arms's path not said here | deeper depths | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into depth=Destination |
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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