Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 54
A new era seemed to have arisen in the poor studio.
Who acts: new era · What happens: seem, arise · To what, where: poor studio
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new era), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 era | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 era | amod |
| 3 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 arisen | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 arisen | aux |
| 7 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 studio | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 studio | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 studio | amod |
| 11 | studio | studio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arisen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a new era | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | arise | to-infinitive · perfect | a new era not said here | the poor studio | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in studio=Location |
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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