The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 33

I was forced to set out, very unwillingly, as you may imagine, but I had not walked far before I came to a shady bank in what seemed to me a charming place.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: force, set out, imagine, not walk, come, seem · To what, where: I, shady bank, charming place, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 set	mark
5	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unwillingly	punct
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 unwillingly	advmod
9	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 imagine	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 imagine	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 imagine	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 imagine	aux
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walked	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 walked	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walked	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 walked	advmod
20	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 forced	conj
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 walked	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walked	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 bank	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bank	det
27	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bank	amod
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 what	case
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bank	nmod
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 seemed	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 place	det
35	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 place	compound
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seemed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		I				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	set out	to-infinitive	I not said here				unwillingly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	imagine	may	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not walk	past · perfect	I				far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	I			a shady bank		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
6	seem	past		a charming place	me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute

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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