Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 216
So that when they again danced together she fell in love with him; and that the shadow could remark, for she almost pierced him through with her eyes.
Who acts: lands, princess, shadow · What happens: dance, fall, remark, pierce · To what, where: love, stranger
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lands, princess, shadow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 danced | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 danced | mark |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 danced | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 danced | advmod |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 danced | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 danced | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 remark | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 remark | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 remark | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shadow | det |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remark | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 remark | aux |
| 20 | remark | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 danced | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pierced | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 pierced | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pierced | nsubj |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 25 pierced | advmod |
| 25 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 danced | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pierced | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 pierced | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pierced | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | lands = land | again | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | princess | love | with stranger | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | remark speech: assert | could | the shadow | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pierce | past | princess | stranger | with princess's eyes; almost, through property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with eye=Instrument |
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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