Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 67
Everything that happened seemed always to add to my sorrow.
Who acts: Everything, my · What happens: happen, seem, add, sorrow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, my), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 add | mark |
| 7 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sorrow | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 add | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | seem | past | Everything | always property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | Everything not said here | to my sorrow | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to sorrow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | my | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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