Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 144
Yes, the blossom unfolded itself, and then burst and fell, and an evil vapor arose from it, blinding the sight, leading astray the fancy; the firework of the senses went out, and it became dark.
Who acts: blossom, evil vapor, firework · What happens: unfold, burst, fall, arise, blind, lead · To what, where: blossom, sight, astray fancy
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 (blossom, evil vapor, firework), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 unfolded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blossom | det |
| 4 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unfolded | nsubj |
| 5 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 unfolded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burst | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 burst | advmod |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfolded | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 burst | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arose | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vapor | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vapor | amod |
| 17 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | nsubj |
| 18 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfolded | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 arose | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blinding | punct |
| 22 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 arose | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blinding | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leading | punct |
| 26 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 blinding | conj |
| 27 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fancy | amod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fancy | det |
| 29 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leading | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 firework | det |
| 32 | firework | firework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 senses | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 senses | det |
| 35 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 firework | nmod |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfolded | parataxis |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 went | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 became | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 became | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 became | nsubj |
| 41 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 went | conj |
| 42 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 became | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | past | the blossom | blossom | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | arise | past | a evil vapor | blossom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blind | gerund | a evil vapor not said here | the sight | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lead | gerund | a evil vapor not said here | the astray fancy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go out | past | the firework of the senses | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | become | past | blossom | dark property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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