Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 25

It seemed as if the air were singing and sounding, as if rays of light were piercing through the leaves and the stalks of the Flower.

Who acts: It, air, rays · What happens: seem, sing, sound, pierce, ray · To what, where: light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, air, rays), 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	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 singing	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 singing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 singing	aux
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sounding	cc
10	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 singing	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 piercing	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 piercing	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 piercing	mark
14	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 piercing	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 light	case
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rays	nmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 piercing	aux
18	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 singing	conj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 piercing	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stalks	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stalks	det
24	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leaves	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Flower	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Flower	det
27	Flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stalks	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the air			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sound	gerund	the air not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	pierce a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	rays of light		through the leaves and the stalks of the Flower	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through leaf=Patient
5	ray			light		nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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