Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 69

"You are a true successor of Thorwalsden," she said to Alfred; and it seemed to him as if, in this instance, mamma had said a clever thing.

Who acts: Alfred, Thorwalsden, it · What happens: be, say, seem · To what, where: true successor, Alfred, mamma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred, Thorwalsden, it), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 successor	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 successor	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 successor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 successor	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 successor	amod
6	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Thorwalsden	case
8	Thorwalsden	Thorwalsden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 successor	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 successor	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Alfred	case
14	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	18 seemed	xcomp
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 as	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 instance	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 instance	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 instance	det
26	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seemed	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
32	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Alfred	a true successor		of Thorwalsden	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Thorwalsden		Alfred		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to alfred=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	seem	past	it		Alfred	in this instance	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in instance=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		mamma			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme thing=Manner

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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