Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 21
Houses seemed to be rising out of the earth--more and more--thicker and thicker.
Who acts: Houses · What happens: seem, rise · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houses), 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 | Houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rising | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rising | aux |
| 5 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rising | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 earth | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 more | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 thicker | punct |
| 15 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 more | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thicker | cc |
| 17 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 thicker | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Houses | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive · progressive | Houses not said here | the earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out earth=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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