The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 10

Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision.

Who acts: division, Palace · What happens: seem, promise, come · To what, where: civil wars, State, collision

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (division, Palace), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 division	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 division	det
3	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ideas	case
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 promise	mark
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wars	amod
10	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 promise	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kinds	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 kinds	det
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wars	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 troubles	case
15	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kinds	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 State	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 State	det
18	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 Palace	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 Palace	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Palace	det
24	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 parties	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 parties	nummod
27	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	nsubj
28	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 collision	case
31	collision	collision	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	such division					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	such division not said here	civil wars and all kinds of troubles	the State			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent war=Theme to state=Goal
3	come	past	the Palace			collision	frequently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into collision=Initial_Location

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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