Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 98
Here it seems as if the very trees and bushes were related to us.
Who acts: it, trees · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, trees), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seems | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 related | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 related | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 trees | advmod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 related | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bushes | cc |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trees | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 related | cop |
| 12 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seems | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 related | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | it | here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the trees and bushes | us | related property | tree rules |
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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