Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 24

It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had received a better temper and a more affectionate helpmate--so young and good, and yet the same, only more gentle and good through the course of time.

Who acts: It, one half · What happens: seem, alter, receive · To what, where: better temper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one half), 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	_	13 altered	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 altered	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 half	nummod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 altered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 father	det
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 altered	aux
13	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seems	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 received	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 received	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 received	aux
17	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seems	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 temper	det
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 temper	amod
20	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 received	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 helpmate	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 helpmate	det
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 affectionate	advmod
24	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 helpmate	amod
25	helpmate	helpmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 temper	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 young	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 young	advmod
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 good	cc
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 young	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 same	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 same	cc
33	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 same	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 same	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 more	punct
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 same	conj
39	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 more	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 good	cc
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gentle	conj
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 course	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 course	det
44	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 more	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 time	case
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 course	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seem	present	It		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	alter a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the one half and the father		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	receive	past · perfect		a better temper and a affectionate helpmate	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=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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