Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 116
It seemed like a providence that as I stepped out of church Eric came towards me; and then there remained not a doubt in my mind.
Who acts: It, I, Eric, my · What happens: seem, step out, come, remain, mind · To what, where: providence, church, doubt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. 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, Eric, 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 | 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 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 providence | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 providence | det |
| 5 | providence | providence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stepped | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 stepped | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 providence | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | obl |
| 13 | Eric | Eric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 church | acl:relcl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 remained | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 remained | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 remained | advmod |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 doubt | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 doubt | det |
| 24 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doubt | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | like a providence | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | I | a providence | church | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | Eric | church not said here | towards me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location church=Theme | |||
| 4 | remain | participle | a doubt in my mind | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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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