Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 138
The thoughts seem to become words, and to sound far out into the world.
Who acts: thoughts · What happens: seem, become, sound · To what, where: words, world
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 (thoughts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thoughts | det |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 become | mark |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 become | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sound | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sound | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sound | mark |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | conj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 out | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 sound | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the thoughts | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | the thoughts not said here | words | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sound | to-infinitive | the thoughts not said here | the world | out property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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