Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 25

Poor Knud! it seemed to him as if the whole room was whirling round with him.

Who acts: Poor Knud, whole room · What happens: seem, whirl · To what, where: France

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Knud, whole room), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Knud	amod
2	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Knud	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 whirling	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 whirling	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 room	amod
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whirling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whirling	aux
14	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seemed	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 whirling	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 whirling	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Poor Knud		France				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	whirl	past · progressive	the whole room					with Knud; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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