Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 226
Is it paralysis, or something dazzling my eyes?"
Who acts: first · What happens: be, dazzle · To what, where: paralysis, eyes
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 (first), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paralysis | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paralysis | nsubj |
| 3 | paralysis | paralysis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 something | cc |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 paralysis | appos |
| 7 | dazzling | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 something | acl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dazzling | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 paralysis | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 paralysis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | first | paralysis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | gerund | my eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
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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