Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 133
Death continued to stare at the emperor with his cold, hollow eyes, and the room was fearfully still.
Who acts: Death, room · What happens: continue, stare, be
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 (Death, room), 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stare | mark |
| 4 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 emperor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stare | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cold | punct |
| 12 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stare | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 still | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 still | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 still | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 still | cop |
| 19 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 20 still | advmod |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 continued | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Death | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stare | to-infinitive | Death not said here | at the emperor; with Death's cold hollow eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at emperor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the room | fearfully, still property | tree rules |
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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