Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 125
Two charming Bacchantes were they; certainly not Psyches--not delicate, beautiful roses, but fresh, hearty, glowing carnations.
Who acts: Two charming Bacchantes · What happens: not be, be, glow · To what, where: Psyches, carnations
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two charming Bacchantes), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Bacchantes | nummod |
| 2 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Bacchantes | compound |
| 3 | Bacchantes | bacchante | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Psyches | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Psyches | cop |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Psyches | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 Psyches | punct |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 Psyches | advmod |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 Psyches | advmod |
| 9 | Psyches | psyche | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 delicate | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 delicate | advmod |
| 12 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Psyches | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 roses | punct |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roses | amod |
| 15 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 delicate | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hearty | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hearty | cc |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hearty | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fresh | punct |
| 20 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Psyches | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glowing | punct |
| 22 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 hearty | advcl |
| 23 | carnations | carnation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 glowing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Psyches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Two charming Bacchantes | Psyches | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Two charming Bacchantes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | Two charming Bacchantes not said here | carnations | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carnation=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/125/