The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 37
It seemed, however, as if a change had come over the young Queen after she had been restored to life, and as if all her love for her husband had faded from her heart.
Who acts: It, change, love · What happens: seem, come, restore, fade, love · To what, where: change, life, heart
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, change, love), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 seemed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 change | det |
| 9 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 Queen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Queen | amod |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 restored | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 restored | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 restored | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 restored | aux:pass |
| 20 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 come | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restored | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 faded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 faded | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 faded | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 faded | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 love | det:predet |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 love | nmod:poss |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 faded | nsubj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 husband | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 love | nmod |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 faded | aux |
| 34 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | conj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 heart | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 faded | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | a change | over the young Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | restore | past · perfect · passive | change | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to life=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fade a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | change's love for change's husband | change's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | love | change | for change's husband | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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