Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 13

She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their high-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the long walk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing.

Who acts: maid · What happens: fancy, see, crown, sit, appear, dance · To what, where: little gnomes, bushes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 fancy	advmod
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
6	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	ccomp
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gnomes	amod
9	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hats	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	16 hats	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hats	nmod:poss
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crowned	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 high	punct
15	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hats	amod
16	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gnomes	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sitting	punct
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 bushes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bushes	det
21	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sitting	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 appeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 back	cc
24	further	further	ADV	_	25 back	advmod
25	back	back	ADV	_	33 appeared	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 walk	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 walk	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 walk	amod
29	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 back	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spectres	punct
31	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spectres	amod
32	spectres	spectre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 walk	conj
33	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	36 dancing	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 dancing	aux
36	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 appeared	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	could	maid			almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	maid	little gnomes		distinctly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gnome=Stimulus
3	crown	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	gerund	maid not said here		the bushes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location
5	appear	past					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dance	to-infinitive · progressive					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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