English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 49

A large and spacious hall, so large that it seemed to be as long, and as broad, as the green hill itself.

Who acts: it · What happens: seem, be

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hall	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spacious	cc
4	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 large	conj
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 seemed	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 large	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	15 long	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 long	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broad	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 broad	cc
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 broad	case
19	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 large	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hill	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 hill	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hill	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hill	amod
24	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	obl
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	24 hill	nmod:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive						long 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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