Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 197
Quietly she went forth into the noisy, bustling, wonderful world, and wherever she went the skies grew bright, and she felt the warm sunbeam, and a rainbow above in the blue heavens seemed to span the dark world.
Who acts: page, skies, rainbow · What happens: go, grow, feel, seem, span · To what, where: noisy bustling wonderful world, warm sunbeam, dark world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page, skies, rainbow), 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 | Quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 7 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noisy | punct |
| 9 | bustling | bustling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bustling | punct |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skies | det |
| 19 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sunbeam | det |
| 27 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sunbeam | amod |
| 28 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seemed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seemed | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rainbow | det |
| 32 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seemed | nsubj |
| 33 | above | above | ADV | _ | 32 rainbow | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 heavens | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heavens | det |
| 36 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 heavens | amod |
| 37 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rainbow | nmod |
| 38 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 span | mark |
| 40 | span | span | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 seemed | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 42 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 world | amod |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 span | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | page | the noisy bustling wonderful world | forth, quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | page | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the skies | bright property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | page | the warm sunbeam | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunbeam=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | a rainbow in the blue heavens | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | span | to-infinitive | a rainbow in the blue heavens not said here | the dark world | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Co-Theme |
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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