Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 58
It seemed to him just as if one turned over a leaf in a book.
Who acts: It, one · What happens: seem, turn · To what, where: Roeskilde, leaf
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one), 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 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 leaf | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 leaf | det |
| 12 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | Roeskilde | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | one | a leaf | in a book | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over leaf=Source in book=Trajectory |
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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