Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 27
It seemed not only the strings, but every part of the instrument from which these sounds were produced.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, produce · To what, where: strings, sounds, instrument
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 strings | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 strings | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strings | det |
| 6 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seemed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 part | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 part | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instrument | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 instrument | det |
| 13 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 produced | obl |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 sounds | det |
| 17 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 produced | aux:pass |
| 19 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 instrument | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | the strings | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | produce | past · passive | this sounds | the instrument | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from which=Material |
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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