Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 192
The recollection of her pious deeds was as light to the soul of poor Anthony.
Who acts: recollection · What happens: be, recollect · To what, where: pious deeds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 recollection | det |
| 2 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 deeds | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deeds | amod |
| 6 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recollection | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 light | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 soul | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Anthony | case |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Anthony | amod |
| 15 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 soul | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the recollection of Lady's pious deeds | as light; to the soul of poor Anthony | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recollect | Lady's pious deeds | nom recollection «cognition 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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