Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 42
It seemed to him that the bundle was growing heavy, and he thought he would look what was in it.
Who acts: It, bundle, lad · What happens: seem, grow, think, look, be · To what, where: lad, bundle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, bundle, lad), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 growing | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bundle | det |
| 7 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 growing | aux |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growing | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 it | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | lad | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | the bundle | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | lad | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | would | lad | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | bundle | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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