Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 55
But this seemed to the lamp a very shabby present, and the wind thought so too. "
Who acts: this, wind · What happens: seem, think · To what, where: shabby present
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lamp | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 shabby | advmod |
| 9 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 present | amod |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 too | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 thought | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this | a shabby present | to the lamp | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme present=Attribute | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the wind | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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