Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 61

He did not perceive that the snowy carpet seemed to sink as it were into the earth; that here and there a little green patch of grass appeared, and that these patches were covered with sparrows.

Who acts: form, snowy carpet, carpet, little green patch · What happens: not perceive, seem, sink, be, appear, cover · To what, where: earth, patches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form, snowy carpet, carpet, little green patch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perceive	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceive	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 perceive	advmod
4	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seemed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carpet	det
7	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carpet	amod
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceive	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sink	mark
11	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 earth	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 earth	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 earth	cop
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sink	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 here	nsubj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 perceive	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 appeared	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 appeared	expl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 patch	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 patch	amod
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 patch	amod
26	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 appeared	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 grass	case
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 patch	nmod
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 here	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 covered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 covered	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 covered	mark
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 patches	det
34	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 covered	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 covered	aux:pass
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 perceive	parataxis
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 sparrows	case
38	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 covered	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not perceive	past · do-support	form				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	seem	past	the snowy carpet				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	sink	to-infinitive	the snowy carpet not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	carpet		the earth		tree rules
5	appear	past	a little green patch of grass		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cover	past · passive		this patches		with sparrows	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sparrow=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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