The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 8

I thought there was only one such pair in the world; but here, it seems, is another.’

Who acts: I, one such pair, it · What happens: think, be, seem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, one such pair, it), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pair	nummod
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pair	amod
8	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pair	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 here	cc
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 seems	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seems	nsubj
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 another	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 another	cop
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 seems	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	one such pair in the world	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	present	it	here	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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