Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 19
It seemed to him as if dew and sunshine were streaming through him.
Who acts: It, dew · What happens: seem, stream · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, dew), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 streaming | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 streaming | mark |
| 7 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 streaming | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sunshine | cc |
| 9 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dew | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 streaming | aux |
| 11 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 streaming | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | son | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stream | past · progressive | dew and sunshine | through son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Location |
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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