Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 66
It seemed to Jurgen as if the loose sand was giving way under his feet.
Who acts: It, loose sand · What happens: seem, give · To what, where: Jurgen, way, feet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, loose sand), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Jurgen | case |
| 4 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sand | det |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sand | amod |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 giving | aux |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 giving | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | Jurgen | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · progressive | the loose sand | way | Jurgen's feet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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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