Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 137

And it seemed to both of them it contained much that resembled their own history; and those parts that were like it pleased them best.

Who acts: it, story, that, parts · What happens: seem, contain, resemble, be · To what, where: parts, own history

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, story, that, parts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 seemed	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 both	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 contained	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 both	nmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 contained	nsubj
9	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
10	much	much	ADV	_	12 resembled	advmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 resembled	nsubj
12	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 contained	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 history	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 history	amod
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resembled	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 parts	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 parts	cc
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 parts	det
19	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seemed	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 pleased	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	cop
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 pleased	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	nsubj
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 parts	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	obl
26	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 pleased	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it	that parts		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	contain	past	story		to both	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	resemble	past	that	flowers's own history		tree rules
4	is	past	that parts		flowers = flower obl; pleased, well 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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