Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 173

It appeared to have become lighter, for the old drover was not half so heavy as Little Claus.

Who acts: It, old drover · What happens: appear, become, not be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, old drover), 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 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 appeared	xcomp
6	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 become	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	14 half	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drover	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 drover	amod
11	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 half	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 half	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 half	advmod
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 appeared	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 heavy	advmod
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 half	amod
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 Claus	case
18	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Claus	amod
19	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heavy	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	appear	past	It		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	become	to-infinitive · perfect		light property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not is	past	the old drover	for half	tree rules

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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