Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 19
It seemed as if one of the first shadows passed over her sunny thoughts.
Who acts: It, one, wife · What happens: seem, pass, think · To what, where: sunny thoughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one, wife), 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 | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shadows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shadows | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 shadows | amod |
| 9 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 thoughts | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | pass | past | one of the first shadows | wife's sunny thoughts | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over thought=Location | ||||
| 3 | think | wife | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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