Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 15
But many other things seemed in confusion also.
Who acts: many other things · What happens: seem
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many other things), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 seemed | cc |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 confusion | case |
| 7 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obl |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | many other things | in confusion | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in confusion=Attribute |
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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