Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 17
The curtain shook, she looked forth, and fancied she saw a gnome or some other kind of little spectre. '
Who acts: curtain, mother · What happens: shake, look, fancy, see · To what, where: gnome
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtain, mother), 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 | 2 curtain | det |
| 2 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fancied | cc |
| 10 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fancied | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gnome | det |
| 14 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 kind | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kind | amod |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gnome | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 spectre | case |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spectre | amod |
| 21 | spectre | spectre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the curtain | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | look | past | mother | forth property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fancy | past | the curtain not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | mother | a gnome or some other kind of little spectre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gnome=Stimulus |
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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