Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 56
Then it seemed as if new life was thrilling through every fibre of root and stem and leaf, rising even to the highest branches.
Who acts: it, new life · What happens: seem, thrill, rise · To what, where: fibre, highest branches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, new life), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrilling | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrilling | mark |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrilling | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrilling | aux |
| 9 | thrilling | thrill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 fibre | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fibre | det |
| 12 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrilling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 root | case |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fibre | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stem | cc |
| 16 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 root | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leaf | cc |
| 18 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 root | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rising | punct |
| 20 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thrilling | parataxis |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 branches | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 branches | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 branches | det |
| 24 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 branches | amod |
| 25 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rising | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | thrill a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | new life | every fibre of root and stem and leaf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the highest branches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to branch=Initial_Location |
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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