Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 159
He trembled as he looked at that picture of immortality, and his glance seemed impure to him.
Who acts: air, glance · What happens: tremble, look, seem, glance
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 (air, glance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 picture | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 immortality | case |
| 10 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picture | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 glance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | parataxis |
| 16 | impure | impure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 impure | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | air | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | past | air | at that picture of immortality | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | air's glance | impure property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glance | air | nom glance «act intransitive»: 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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