Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 31
Nature seems anew to celebrate her awakening into life.
Who acts: Nature · What happens: seem, celebrate, awaken · To what, where: nature, life
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nature), 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 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 celebrate | mark |
| 5 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 celebrate | obj |
| 7 | awakening | awaken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 celebrate | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakening | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Nature | anew property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | to-infinitive | Nature not said here | nature | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | awaken | gerund | Nature not said here | life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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