Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 44

It seemed to me as if I were the lieutenant up yonder, but there was no happiness for me.

Who acts: It, I, happiness · What happens: seem up, be · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, happiness), 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 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	10 lieutenant	case
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 lieutenant	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lieutenant	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lieutenant	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lieutenant	det
10	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
11	up	up	ADP	_	2 seemed	compound:prt
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 seemed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 was	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 happiness	det
18	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 happiness	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem up	past	It	me		yonder property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I			as the lieutenant	tree rules
3	be	past	no happiness for me		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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