Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 121

He had a scar over one eye, which seemed to divide the eyebrow into two parts.

Who acts: man, one eye · What happens: have, seem, divide · To what, where: scar, one eye, eyebrow, two parts

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scar	det
4	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eye	nummod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eye	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 divide	mark
12	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eyebrow	det
14	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 divide	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 parts	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 parts	nummod
17	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 divide	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	man	a scar	one eye	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Patient
2	seem	past	one eye			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	divide	to-infinitive	one eye not said here	the eyebrow	two parts	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=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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