Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 109

To him it seemed as if they were really engaged to each other, although not a word had been spoken on the subject.

Who acts: it · What happens: seem, engage, speak · To what, where: Ib, lips, word, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 engaged	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 engaged	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 engaged	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 engaged	aux:pass
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 engaged	advmod
10	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seemed	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 engaged	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spoken	punct
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	21 spoken	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 word	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spoken	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spoken	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 spoken	aux:pass
21	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 engaged	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 subject	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 subject	det
24	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spoken	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		Ib			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	engage a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		lips = lip			to each	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		a word		the subject		tree rules

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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