Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 82

The others at home love him best; but, I do not know why, there seemed to me to be something about the old couple that attracts my heart!

Who acts: others, I, old couple · What happens: love, not know, seem, be, attract · To what, where: baron, me, something, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, I, old couple), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 others	nmod
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 love	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 but	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 love	parataxis
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 know	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 seemed	expl
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 something	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 something	cop
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 seemed	xcomp
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 couple	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 couple	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 couple	amod
27	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 something	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 attracts	nsubj
29	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 couple	acl:relcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 attracts	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	present	the others at home	baron			good property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seem	past			me	there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		something			about the old couple	tree rules
5	attract	present	the old couple	my heart				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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