Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 121
These were the emperor's good and bad deeds, which stared him in the face now Death sat at his heart.
Who acts: These, good deeds, Death · What happens: be, stare, sit · To what, where: emperor, face, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, good deeds, Death), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 emperor | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emperor | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deeds | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 emperor | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deeds | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bad | cc |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stared | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stared | nsubj |
| 12 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 deeds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stared | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stared | obl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 sat | advmod |
| 18 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stared | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | These | 's the emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | good deeds | emperor | the face | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Death | emperor's heart | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at heart=Location |
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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