Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 28

It was a wonderful performance and a difficult piece, and yet the bow seemed to glide across the strings so easily that it was as if any one could do it who tried.

Who acts: sound, bow · What happens: be, seem, glide, try · To what, where: wonderful performance, strings

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 (sound, bow), 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	5 performance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 performance	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 performance	det
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 performance	amod
5	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 piece	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
8	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 piece	amod
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 performance	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 seemed	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bow	det
14	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 performance	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 glide	mark
17	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 strings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strings	det
20	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 glide	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 easily	advmod
22	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 glide	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	cop
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 glide	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tried	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 tried	nsubj
34	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 performance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sound	a wonderful performance and a difficult piece				tree rules
2	seem	past	the bow	a wonderful performance and a difficult piece not said here		yet		tree rules
3	glide	to-infinitive	the bow not said here		the strings		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across string=Trajectory
4	is	could · past	sound				do property	tree rules
5	try	past	sound					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: 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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