Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 114

It seemed to him as if all the neatest and most curiously carved toy houses which his grandfather once kept in the large cupboard at home, had been brought out and placed in this spot, and that they had increased in size since then, as the old chestnut trees had done.

Who acts: It, streets · What happens: seem, carve, keep, bring out, place, increase · To what, where: Rudy, grandfather, large cupboard, neatest carved toy houses, spot, size

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, streets), 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 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 brought	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 brought	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 houses	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 houses	det
9	neatest	neat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 houses	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 houses	cc
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 curiously	advmod
12	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	13 carved	advmod
13	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 houses	amod
14	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	compound
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 brought	nsubj:pass
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 kept	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandfather	nmod:poss
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj:pass
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 kept	advmod
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 houses	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 cupboard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cupboard	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cupboard	amod
24	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cupboard	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 houses	punct
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 brought	aux:pass
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 brought	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 placed	cc
33	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 brought	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 spot	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 placed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 increased	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 increased	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 increased	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 increased	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 increased	aux
42	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	parataxis
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 size	case
44	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 increased	obl
45	since	since	ADP	_	46 then	case
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 increased	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 done	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 done	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 trees	det
50	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 trees	amod
51	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 trees	compound
52	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 done	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 done	aux
54	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 increased	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		Rudy			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	carve	participle					curiously property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	participle · passive		Rudy's grandfather		the large cupboard at home	once property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute
4	bring out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		all neatest carved toy houses				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	place	participle				this spot		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in spot=Destination
6	increase	past · perfect	streets = street			size		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	do	past · perfect · passive		the old chestnut trees				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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