Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 79

It seemed almost as if it had grown larger, for it appeared quite to fill the chair.

Who acts: It, service · What happens: seem, grow, appear, fill · To what, where: chair

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 (It, service), 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	almost	almost	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 grown	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 grown	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grown	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	advcl
9	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grown	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 appeared	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 appeared	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 appeared	nsubj
13	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 appeared	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fill	mark
16	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 appeared	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fill	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		almost property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past · perfect	service		large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fill	to-infinitive		the chair		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chair=Patient

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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