Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 84

All creation seemed to speak of beneficence and love.

Who acts: creation · What happens: seem, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creation), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 creation	det
2	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 beneficence	case
7	beneficence	beneficence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 love	cc
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beneficence	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	all creation						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	all creation not said here					of beneficence and love	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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