Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 39
To many eyes the characters seem so mixed in confusion that the words cannot be distinguished.
Who acts: many eyes, confusion · What happens: seem, mix, not distinguish · To what, where: confusion, words
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 (many eyes, confusion), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 characters | det |
| 5 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | conj |
| 6 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 mixed | advmod |
| 8 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seem | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 confusion | case |
| 10 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mixed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 distinguished | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 distinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 distinguished | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 distinguished | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 17 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 confusion | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | many eyes and the characters | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mix | participle | many eyes and the characters not said here | confusion | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not distinguish | can · passive | confusion not said here | the words | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme |
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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