Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 11

He appeared to be praying, but in the midst of his prayer he seemed to fall into deep thought, and this must have been wrong, for his cheeks glowed and he held down his head.

Who acts: Fo, this, cheeks · What happens: appear, pray, seem, fall, be, glow · To what, where: midst, deep thought, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fo, this, cheeks), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 praying	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 praying	aux
5	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 appeared	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 midst	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 midst	det
10	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 prayer	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 prayer	nmod:poss
13	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 midst	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fall	mark
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 thought	case
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	amod
20	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fall	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wrong	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wrong	cc
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 wrong	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wrong	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 wrong	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 wrong	cop
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glowed	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 glowed	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cheeks	nmod:poss
31	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 glowed	nsubj
32	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wrong	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 held	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 held	nsubj
35	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 glowed	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 held	compound:prt
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 held	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Fo				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pray	to-infinitive · progressive	Fo not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	seem	past	Fo		the midst of Fo's prayer		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fall	to-infinitive	Fo not said here			into deep thought result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into thought=Result
5	is	must · perfect	this			wrong property	tree rules
6	glow	past	Fo's cheeks				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold down	past	Fo	Fo's head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
8	pray		Fo				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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