Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 22
In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful, and of the utmost importance; for the bit of glass which was in his eye caused this.
Who acts: figures, bit · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: eyes, eye, this
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (figures, bit), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beautiful | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 figures | det |
| 5 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 7 | extraordinarily | extraordinarily | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 importance | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 importance | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 importance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 importance | det |
| 13 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 importance | amod |
| 14 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beautiful | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bit | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 bit | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 glass | case |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 eye | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eye | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 eye | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eye | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | acl:relcl |
| 26 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | advcl:relcl |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 caused | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the figures | Kay's eyes | of the utmost importance; beautiful, extraordinarily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the bit of glass | Kay's eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | the bit of glass | this | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition this=Patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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