Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 47
It seems as if the sunbeams were always looking for me under the water.
Who acts: It, sunbeams · What happens: seem, look · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, sunbeams), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunbeams | det |
| 6 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looking | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 looking | advmod |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 looking | obl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | look a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | the sunbeams | the water | for me; always property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for i=Theme under water=Location |
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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