Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 139
She looked back three times, but no one seemed to be following her.
Who acts: Gerda, one · What happens: look back, seem, follow · To what, where: Gerda
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 following | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 following | aux |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 following | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | Gerda | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | no one | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive · progressive | no one not said here | Gerda | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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