Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 8
My light was faint, my face pale as the water lily that, torn from its stem, has been drifting for weeks with the tide.
Who acts: light, face, My · What happens: be, tear, drift, light, stem · To what, where: water lily
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, face, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 light | nmod:poss |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faint | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faint | cop |
| 4 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pale | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pale | nsubj |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faint | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 lily | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lily | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lily | compound |
| 12 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pale | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 torn | punct |
| 15 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lily | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 stem | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stem | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 torn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drifting | punct |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drifting | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 drifting | aux |
| 22 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 faint | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 weeks | case |
| 24 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drifting | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 tide | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tide | det |
| 27 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drifting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My light | faint property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | my face | as the water lily | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tear | participle · passive | the water lily | from face's stem | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from stem=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | drift | present · perfect · progressive | My light not said here | week | with the tide | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | light | My | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | stem | face | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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