Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 19

The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her somewhere before, perhaps near Grindelwald, on the evening of his return home from Interlachen, after the shooting-match.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: not be, seem, see, return · To what, where: Annette, Grindelwald, schoolmaster, Interlachen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Annette	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Annette	advmod
5	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 maiden	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	9 seemed	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seemed	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 before	advmod
17	before	before	ADV	_	14 seen	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Grindelwald	punct
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 Grindelwald	advmod
20	near	near	ADP	_	21 Grindelwald	case
21	Grindelwald	Grindelwald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 evening	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 evening	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 evening	det
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl:unmarked
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 return	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 return	nmod:poss
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 evening	nmod
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 return	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 Interlachen	case
31	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 return	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 match	punct
33	after	after	ADP	_	37 match	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 match	det
35	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 match	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 shooting	punct
37	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		Annette				tree rules
2	seem	past	the maiden		Grindelwald	evening		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Maiden	schoolmaster			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	return		Maiden		Interlachen			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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