Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 14
The coloured lizards slipped away, startled, from before her feet, but she was not frightened at them.
Who acts: coloured lizards · What happens: slip away, startle, not frighten · To what, where: feet, beam
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coloured lizards), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lizards | det |
| 2 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lizards | amod |
| 3 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 startled | punct |
| 7 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slipped | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feet | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 startled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frightened | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 frightened | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 frightened | advmod |
| 18 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slipped | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 frightened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | the coloured lizards | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | startle | past | the coloured lizards not said here | beam's feet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not frighten | past · passive | beam | at lizards = lizard | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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