Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 30
"Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, like the sword of the cherub."
Who acts: earthly thoughts, cold beam, homes, my · What happens: meet, lie, think, beam · To what, where: two
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earthly thoughts, cold beam, homes, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
| 2 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thoughts | amod |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beam | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beam | amod |
| 10 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sword | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sword | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sword | det |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cherub | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cherub | det |
| 21 | cherub | cherub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sword | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | past | homes's earthly thoughts | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | past | my cold beam | the two | like the sword of the cherub | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between two=Location | |||
| 3 | think in a quote | homes = home | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | beam in a quote | my | nom beam «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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