Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 121

It looked like a pale, rayless surface, and a deadly weight seemed to hang upon her limbs. "

Who acts: mist, deadly weight · What happens: look, seem, hang · To what, where: limbs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist, deadly weight), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	8 surface	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 surface	det
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surface	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
7	rayless	rayless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surface	amod
8	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 weight	det
12	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weight	amod
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hang	mark
16	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 limbs	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 limbs	nmod:poss
19	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hang	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	mist		like a pale rayless surface	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	seem	past	a deadly weight			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	hang	to-infinitive	a deadly weight not said here	fear's limbs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon limb=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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