Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 55

The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own fancy, and as if the houses objected to stand in rows or rank and file.

Who acts: streets, houses · What happens: seem, arrange, accord, object, stand, fancy · To what, where: streets, rows

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 (streets, houses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 streets	det
2	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seem	nsubj
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 arranged	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 arranged	aux
6	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 seem	xcomp
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 arranged	obj
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fancy	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fancy	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fancy	amod
12	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arranged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 objected	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 objected	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 objected	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 objected	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 houses	det
18	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 objected	nsubj
19	objected	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seem	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stand	mark
21	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 objected	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 rows	case
23	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stand	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 rank	cc
25	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rows	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 file	cc
27	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rank	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the streets				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	arrange	to-infinitive · perfect	the streets not said here	streets = street		accord streets's own fancy	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	object speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	the houses				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stand	to-infinitive	the houses not said here		rows or rank and file		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
6	fancy		streets = street				nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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