Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 86
It seemed in pain, as if a new life were arising in her heart.
Who acts: It, new life · What happens: seem, arise · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. 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 | 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arising | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 arising | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 arising | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arising | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arising | aux |
| 12 | arising | arise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seemed | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arising | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | in pain | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pain=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | arise | past · progressive | a new life | Helga's heart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=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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