Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 141
Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and floated out through the window in the form of a cold, white mist.
Who acts: Death · What happens: long, go, see, float out, form · To what, where: garden, window, cold white mist
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 longed | advmod |
| 2 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 longed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 floated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 floated | cc |
| 12 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 longed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 floated | compound:prt |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 window | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mist | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mist | det |
| 22 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mist | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cold | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mist | amod |
| 25 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 form | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | Death | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Death not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Death not said here | Death's garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | float out | participle | Death not said here | the window | in the form of a cold white mist | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Source in form=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | form | a cold white mist | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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