Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 122

As he spoke in this way, it seemed as if he had already been out in the world, as if he had already known and associated with man.

Who acts: man, it · What happens: speak, seem, have, be, know, associate · To what, where: way, world, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	ccomp
14	already	already	ADV	_	19 world	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 world	cop
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 been	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 known	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 known	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 known	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux
25	already	already	ADV	_	26 known	advmod
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 world	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 associated	cc
28	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 known	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 man	case
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 associated	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man		this way		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle			the world		tree rules
5	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	associate	participle				with man	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with man=Co-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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