Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 160

He threw the cloth over the statue, and then touched it once more to unveil the form--but he was not able to look again at his own work.

Who acts: glance · What happens: throw, touch, unveil, not be, look, work · To what, where: cloth, statue, form

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 (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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloth	det
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 statue	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 touched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 touched	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 touched	advmod
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	obj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 touched	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 unveil	mark
16	unveil	unveil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 touched	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 form	det
18	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unveil	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 able	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 able	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 able	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 able	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 able	advmod
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 work	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 work	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 work	amod
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	glance	the cloth	the statue			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over statue=Destination
2	touch	past	glance not said here	cloth		then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	unveil	to-infinitive	glance not said here	the form				tree rules
4	not is	past	glance				able property	tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	glance not said here			again	at glance's own work	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme
6	work		glance					nom work «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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