Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 117

Among the latter came an old maid, who seemed to be quite alone in the world.

Who acts: latter, old maid · What happens: come, seem, be · To what, where: world

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 (latter, old 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 came	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 latter	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maid	amod
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maid	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 alone	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 alone	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alone	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the latter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	a old maid			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	a old maid not said here	the world	alone property	tree rules

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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