Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 28

And then there appeared before him two remarkable shapes, which looked much more like human beings than when he had seen them in his childhood; they were changed, but he remembered that they were the two gingerbread cakes, the man and the woman, who had shown their best sides to the world and looked so good.

Who acts: two remarkable shapes, Knud, tree, man · What happens: appear, look, see, change, remember, be · To what, where: two remarkable shapes, tree, childhood, two gingerbread cakes, best sides, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two remarkable shapes, Knud, tree, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 appeared	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 appeared	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 appeared	advmod
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 appeared	obl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 shapes	nummod
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shapes	amod
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shapes	acl:relcl
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 looked	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 beings	case
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beings	amod
17	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looked	obl
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 seen	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 looked	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 childhood	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 childhood	nmod:poss
26	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seen	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 changed	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 changed	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 changed	aux:pass
30	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 appeared	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remembered	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 remembered	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 remembered	nsubj
34	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	parataxis
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 cakes	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 cakes	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 cakes	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cakes	det
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 cakes	nummod
40	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cakes	compound
41	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 remembered	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 man	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cakes	appos
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 woman	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 woman	det
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 man	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 shown	punct
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 shown	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 shown	aux
51	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 man	acl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 sides	nmod:poss
53	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	54 sides	amod
54	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 shown	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 world	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 world	det
57	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shown	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 looked	cc
59	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 remembered	conj
60	so	so	ADV	_	61 good	advmod
61	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 looked	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past		two remarkable shapes		there	before Knud; then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
2	look	past	two remarkable shapes					like human beings	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past · perfect	Knud	tree		Knud's childhood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	change	past · passive		tree					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	remember	past	Knud						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	tree	the two gingerbread cakes					tree rules
7	show	past · perfect	the man and the woman	tree's best sides	the world				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Topic to world=Recipient
8	look	past	Knud not said here					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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