Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 135

There stood the Tree quite hidden; it seemed as if he had been entirely forgotten.

Who acts: it · What happens: stand, hide, seem, forget · To what, where: Tree

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tree	det
4	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 hidden	advmod
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 forgotten	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 forgotten	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgotten	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forgotten	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 forgotten	aux:pass
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	16 forgotten	advmod
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the Tree	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	hide	participle					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	forget a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Tree		entirely 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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