The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 20

These rings seem to be quite common; you must often have heard of them, even if you have never seen one.

Who acts: rings, you · What happens: seem, be, hear, not see · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rings, you), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 rings	det
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seem	nsubj
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 common	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 common	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 common	advmod
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seem	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
11	often	often	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 seem	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	22 seen	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 heard	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 seen	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	this rings			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	this rings not said here		common property	tree rules
3	hear	must · perfect	you		of parents = parent; often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus
4	not see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you	one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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