Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 35
It seemed as if I saw myself again in the days of my childhood; and so I voted for the hare."
Who acts: It, I · What happens: seem, see, vote · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 childhood | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 14 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 days | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 voted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 voted | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 voted | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 voted | nsubj |
| 19 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hare | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hare | det |
| 22 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | I | myself | again; day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | vote | past | I | for the hare goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for hare=Goal |
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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