Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 15

"Simple as it looks," said he, "this little edifice seems to be the work of magic.

Who acts: thing, Eustace, little edifice · What happens: look, say, seem, be · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Eustace, little edifice), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Simple	punct
2	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Simple	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Simple	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seems	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 seems	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 edifice	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 edifice	amod
14	edifice	edifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seems	nsubj
15	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 work	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seems	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 magic	case
21	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	thing			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Eustace			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	seem in a quote	present	this little edifice			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	this little edifice not said here	the work	of magic	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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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