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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 25

And then he talked of his wedding-day; and his eyes brightened, and he seemed to be carried back, by his words, to that joyful time.

Who acts: man, words · What happens: talk, brighten, seem, carry back, word · To what, where: eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, words), 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

ccadvmodnsubjcasenmod:posscompoundpunctoblpunctccnmod:possoblaclpunctccnsubjconjmarkaux:passxcompadvmodpunctcasenmod:possoblpunctcasedetamodoblpunctrootAndCCONJthenADVhePRONtalkedVERBofADPhisPRONweddingNOUN-PUNCTdayNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONeyesNOUNbrightenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONseemedVERBtoPARTbeAUXcarriedVERBbackADV,PUNCTbyADPhisPRONwordsNOUN,PUNCTtoADPthatDETjoyfulADJtimeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 talkedcc
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 talkedadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 talkednsubj
4talkedtalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ofofADP_9 daycase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 daynmod:poss
7weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing9 daycompound
8--PUNCT_7 weddingpunct
9daydayNOUNNumber=Sing4 talkedobl
10;;PUNCT_13 eyespunct
11andandCCONJ_13 eyescc
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 eyesnmod:poss
13eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur4 talkedobl
14brightenedbrightenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 eyesacl
15,,PUNCT_18 seemedpunct
16andandCCONJ_18 seemedcc
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 seemednsubj
18seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 talkedconj
19totoPART_21 carriedmark
20bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf21 carriedaux:pass
21carriedcarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 seemedxcomp
22backbackADV_21 carriedadvmod
23,,PUNCT_26 wordspunct
24bybyADP_26 wordscase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 wordsnmod:poss
26wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur21 carriedobl
27,,PUNCT_31 timepunct
28totoADP_31 timecase
29thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem31 timedet
30joyfuljoyfulADJDegree=Pos31 timeamod
31timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing21 carriedobl
32..PUNCT_4 talkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1talkpastmanman's eyesthen; dayvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2brightenparticipleman's eyes not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3seempastmanvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4carry backto-infinitive · passiveman's wordstimevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5wordmannom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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