Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 7
Clouds passed between us, as if he were not to see his face, nor I his.
Who acts: Clouds, prisoner · What happens: pass, not see · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouds, prisoner), 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 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 passed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 his | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 his | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 his | nsubj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 passed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Clouds | between us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between we=Location | ||||
| 2 | not see a condition, not said to happen | past | prisoner | prisoner's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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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