Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 86

Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf.

Who acts: Kjoge · What happens: wander on, seem, cover · To what, where: country, Kjoge

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 (Kjoge), 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	Silently	silently	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 wandered	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Alps	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Alps	det
10	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 garden	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 garden	det
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garden	compound
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 seemed	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 turf	case
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turf	amod
24	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander on	past	Kjoge		the country of the Alps	silently property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory
2	seem	past		Kjoge		like a fruit garden	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	cover	participle				with soft turf	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with turf=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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