The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 1
‘I have just seen Prince Vivien, and he seemed to me to be very ill.’
Who acts: I, Vivien · What happens: see, seem, be · To what, where: Vivien, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Vivien), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ill | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ill | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ill | advmod |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | Vivien Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vivien=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | Vivien | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Vivien not said here | ill property | tree rules |
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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