The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 2

Nothing appeared to be unknown to him, and it really seemed as if tidings of the most secret matters must be borne to him by the winds.

Who acts: Nothing, it, winds · What happens: appear, be, seem, bear · To what, where: King, tidings

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, it, winds), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 unknown	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 unknown	cop
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unknown	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 seemed	advmod
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 borne	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 borne	mark
15	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 borne	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 matters	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matters	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 secret	advmod
19	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 matters	amod
20	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tidings	nmod
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 borne	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 borne	aux:pass
23	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 borne	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 winds	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 winds	det
28	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 borne	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Nothing				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here		King	unknown property	tree rules
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	bear a condition, not said to happen	must · passive	the winds	tidings of the secret matters	King		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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