Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 16

All seemed to him in proper order as usual; it was East Street, splendid and elegant as we now see it.

Who acts: Councillor, we · What happens: seem, be, see · To what, where: man, East Street, Councillor

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor, we), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 seemed	advmod
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 order	amod
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 usual	case
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 order	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Street	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Street	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Street	cop
13	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Street	compound
14	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 splendid	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 splendid	punct
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 elegant	cc
18	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 splendid	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 splendid	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past			man		in proper order as usual	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in order=Attribute
2	is a	past	Councillor	East Street				tree rules
3	see	present	we	Councillor		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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