Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 47
It seemed to him like turning over the leaves of a book.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, turn · To what, where: Denmark, leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 turning | mark |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turning | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | Denmark | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the leaves of a book | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory |
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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