Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 15
But to the fisherman's wife these nations seemed all the same, and she consoled herself with the thought that the child was baptized as a Christian.
Who acts: nations, Spaniard, thought · What happens: seem, console, baptize · To what, where: Spaniard, child
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nations, Spaniard, thought), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fisherman | det |
| 4 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 fisherman | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 nations | det |
| 8 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 same | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 consoled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consoled | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 consoled | nsubj |
| 16 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seemed | conj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 consoled | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 thought | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thought | det |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consoled | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 baptized | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 baptized | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 baptized | aux:pass |
| 25 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 thought | acl:relcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Christian | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Christian | det |
| 28 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 baptized | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this nations | to the fisherman's wife; same property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | console | past | Spaniard | Spaniard | with the thought | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | baptize | past · passive | the thought not said here | the child | as a Christian | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
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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