Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 111

No; here it seemed as if the wooden houses on the hills had run into the valley, and placed themselves in rows and ranks by the side of the clear river, which rushes like an arrow in its course.

Who acts: it, wooden houses, clear river · What happens: seem, run, place, rush · To what, where: valley, towns, rows, course

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, wooden houses, clear river), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 here	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seemed	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 run	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 run	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 houses	amod
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 run	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 houses	nmod
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 run	aux
15	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seemed	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 valley	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 valley	det
18	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 run	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 placed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 placed	cc
21	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 placed	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 rows	case
24	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 placed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ranks	cc
26	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rows	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 placed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 river	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 river	det
32	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 river	amod
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rushes	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 rushes	nsubj
36	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 river	acl:relcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 arrow	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 arrow	det
39	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rushes	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 course	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 course	nmod:poss
42	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rushes	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		here		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	run a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the wooden houses on the hills			into the valley result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into valley=Result
3	place	past		towns = town	rows and ranks	by the side of the clear river	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in row=Destination
4	rush	present	the clear river		arrow's course	like a arrow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Trajectory

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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