Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 23
I shone upon the group of the Laocoon; the stone seemed to sigh.
Who acts: I, stone · What happens: shine, seem, sigh · To what, where: group
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 (I, stone), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 shone | nsubj |
| 2 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 group | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shone | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Laocoon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Laocoon | det |
| 8 | Laocoon | Laocoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 group | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shone | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sigh | mark |
| 14 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | I | the group of the Laocoon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon group=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the stone | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sigh | to-infinitive | the stone not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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