Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 45

It seemed to him just as if he were in his own church, where he had been christened, and had sung the psalms with his father.

Who acts: It, John · What happens: seem, be, christen, sing · To what, where: John, psalms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, John), 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	just	just	ADV	_	13 church	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 church	case
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 as	fixed
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 church	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 church	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 church	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 church	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 church	amod
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 christened	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 christened	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 christened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 christened	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 christened	aux:pass
19	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 church	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sung	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sung	cc
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sung	aux
23	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 psalms	det
25	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sung	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sung	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		John		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	John			as John's own church	tree rules
3	christen	past · perfect · passive		John			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result
4	sing speech: express	past · perfect		the psalms		with John's father	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=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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