Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 8

I am a Dutchman by birth, that may be seen by my figure--a flying Dutchman.

Who acts: I, figure, my · What happens: be, see, fly, figure · To what, where: Dutchman

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 (I, figure, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Dutchman	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Dutchman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Dutchman	det
4	Dutchman	dutchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 birth	case
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Dutchman	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 seen	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Dutchman	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 figure	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 figure	nmod:poss
14	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 Dutchman	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Dutchman	det
17	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Dutchman	amod
18	Dutchman	dutchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 figure	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Dutchman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a Dutchman	by birth	tree rules
2	see	may · passive	my figure	a Dutchman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	figure		my			nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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