Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 48
She carried in her hand something that seemed like a flower.
Who acts: opinion · What happens: carry, seem · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opinion), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 something | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | compound |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 carried | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 flower | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | opinion | something | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in something=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | like a flower | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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