Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 84
Everything around her seemed holy, and her heart was chastened.
Who acts: Everything · What happens: seem, chasten · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything), 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 | around | around | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chastened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chastened | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chastened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chastened | aux:pass |
| 11 | chastened | chasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seemed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Everything | holy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chasten | past · passive | mother's heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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