Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 27

It seemed to me as if I were again in the pyramids of Egypt, and yet the waving elder trunk that had frightened me on the moor stood ever before me.

Who acts: It, I, waving elder trunk · What happens: seem, be, wave, frighten, stand · To what, where: me, pyramids, waving elder trunk, moor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, waving elder trunk), 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 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 again	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 again	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 again	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 again	cop
9	again	again	ADV	_	2 seemed	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pyramids	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pyramids	det
12	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 again	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Egypt	case
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pyramids	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trunk	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trunk	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 trunk	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trunk	det
19	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 trunk	amod
20	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trunk	compound
21	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 frightened	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	aux
24	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 trunk	acl:relcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 frightened	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 moor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moor	det
28	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frightened	obl
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 stood	advmod
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 stood	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		me				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I			the pyramids of Egypt		again property	tree rules
3	wave	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	past · perfect · passive		the waving elder trunk		the moor			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
5	stand	past	the waving elder trunk				before me; ever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=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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