Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 9

The father and mother seemed to be dreaming of the burning liquor that remained in the bottle.

Who acts: father, burning liquor · What happens: seem, dream, burn, remain · To what, where: bottle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, burning liquor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 dreaming	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dreaming	aux
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seemed	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 liquor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 liquor	det
11	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 liquor	amod
12	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dreaming	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 remained	nsubj
14	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 liquor	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bottle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottle	det
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remained	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the father and mother			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	dream	to-infinitive · progressive	the father and mother not said here		of the burning liquor	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain	past	the burning liquor	the bottle		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottle=Location

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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