Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 84

"It seems to me as if somebody were behind us," said Gerda, as something rushed by her like a shadow on the wall, and then horses with flying manes and thin legs, hunters, ladies and gentlemen on horseback, glided by her, like shadows on the wall.

Who acts: It, somebody, Gerda · What happens: seem, be, say, rush, fly, glide · To what, where: Gerda, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, somebody, Gerda), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seems	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	11 us	case
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 us	mark
8	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 us	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 us	cop
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seems	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 something	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 something	case
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 said	obl
19	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 something	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rushed	obl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 shadow	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shadow	det
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rushed	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 wall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rushed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 horses	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 horses	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 horses	advmod
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 something	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 manes	case
33	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 manes	amod
34	manes	manis	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 horses	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 legs	cc
36	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 legs	amod
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 manes	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hunters	punct
39	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 manes	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ladies	punct
41	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 manes	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gentlemen	cc
43	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 horses	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 horseback	case
45	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 horses	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 glided	punct
47	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 something	conj
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 her	case
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 glided	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 shadows	punct
51	like	like	ADP	_	52 shadows	case
52	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 glided	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 wall	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wall	det
55	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shadows	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	present	It	Gerda			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	somebody			as us	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Gerda			as something	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rush	participle			the wall	by Gerda; like a shadow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by she=Trajectory
5	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	glide	participle	Gerda not said here			by Gerda; like shadows on the wall	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by she=Trajectory

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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