Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 1

Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see.

Who acts: India, we, noble tree · What happens: seem, stand, not see · To what, where: Tree, noble tree, east

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (India, we, noble tree), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 east	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 east	det
5	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 away	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 India	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 India	case
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 east	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 India	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 world	case
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 days	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Tree	det
22	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sun	det
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Tree	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tree	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tree	det
28	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tree	amod
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	36 seen	mark
32	as	as	ADP	_	31 such	fixed
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 seen	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 seen	advmod
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 tree	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	42 see	advmod
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 see	advmod
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 east	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	India		day		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	India not said here	the Tree of the Sun			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	not see	present · perfect	we	a noble tree not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	not see	may	a noble tree	the east in India not said here		perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer east=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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