Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 58

I remembered a few of these books, they had always appeared tempting to the appetite; they had been much read, and were so greasy, that they must have absorbed no end of emotions in themselves.

Who acts: I, novels · What happens: remember, appear, tempt, be, absorb · To what, where: few, novels

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, novels), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 books	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 books	det
7	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 few	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 appeared	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 appeared	advmod
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 remembered	conj
13	tempting	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 appeared	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 appetite	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 appetite	det
16	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tempting	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 read	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 read	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 read	cop
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 read	advmod
22	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 greasy	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 greasy	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 greasy	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 greasy	advmod
27	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 absorbed	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 absorbed	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 absorbed	nsubj:pass
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 absorbed	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 absorbed	aux
33	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 greasy	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 absorbed	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 emotions	case
37	emotions	emotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 end	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 themselves	case
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 emotions	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	I	a few of this books		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent few=Theme
2	appear	past · perfect	novels = novel		always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	tempt	gerund	novels = novel not said here		to the appetite	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	novels = novel		read property	tree rules
5	is	past			greasy property	tree rules
6	absorb	must · perfect · passive		novels = novel		tree rules

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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