Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 27

Our earth revolved in the thin air, and the cities upon it seemed to lie close to each other.

Who acts: earth · What happens: revolve, seem, lie · To what, where: earth, thin air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 earth	nmod:poss
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj:outer
3	revolved	revolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 earth	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 revolved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cities	det
11	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seemed	nsubj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cities	nmod
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lie	mark
16	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lie	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	17 close	obl
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revolve	participle		Our earth not said here	the thin air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
2	seem	past	Our earth				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	lie	to-infinitive	Our earth not said here			close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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