Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 3
My rays glided over a little window in the wall, and I saw a painted face with the forehead pressed against the panes.
Who acts: rays, I, My · What happens: glide, see, paint, press, ray · To what, where: little window, painted face, forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, I, 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 rays | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 window | amod |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glided | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 face | det |
| 16 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 face | amod |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forehead | det |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 21 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 forehead | acl |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 panes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 panes | det |
| 24 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pressed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | My rays | a little window | in the wall | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over window=Source in wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | I | a painted face | with the forehead | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | press | participle | the forehead not said here | against the panes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against pane=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ray | My | nom ray «phenomenon 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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