Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 5
Something pleasant seems creeping over us, even down to our toes, as if we were full of live frogs.
Who acts: Something, we · What happens: seem, creep, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, we), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 creeping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 down | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 down | advmod |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 creeping | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 toes | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 toes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 down | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 full | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 full | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seems | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 frogs | case |
| 20 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 frogs | amod |
| 21 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Something | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | Something not said here | over us; down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over we=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | we | of live frogs; full property | 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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