Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 115
It seemed to the bottle as if he were living that time over again.
Who acts: It, pair · What happens: seem, live
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, pair), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bottle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottle | det |
| 5 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 living | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 living | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 living | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 living | aux |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 over | mark |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 over | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 living | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 over | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | to the bottle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past · progressive | pair | over property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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