Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 5
It seems to me there must be something outside, and I feel sure of it."
Who acts: It, something, I · What happens: seem, be, feel · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, something, I), 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 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 be | expl |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seems | conj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 be | nsubj |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 something | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feel | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | conj |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | must | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | I | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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