Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 19

It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.

Who acts: It, Rischt · What happens: seem, sit, burnish · To what, where: top

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Rischt), 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	really	really	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 maiden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maiden	amod
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sitting	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 seemed	xcomp
13	before	before	ADP	_	17 stove	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stove	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stove	amod
16	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stove	compound
17	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feet	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 feet	case
20	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 feet	amod
21	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feet	compound
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ornament	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ornament	det
25	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ornament	compound
26	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feet	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 top	case
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			to the little maiden	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	sit	past · progressive	Rischt	top	before a large iron stove		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before stove=Location
3	burnish	participle					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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