Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 165
Into this he cast the Psyche, threw earth in above her, and covered up the spot with twigs and nettles.
Who acts: flashing · What happens: cast, throw, cover up · To what, where: Psyche, this, earth, spot
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 (flashing), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cast | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Psyche | det |
| 6 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | conj |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covered | cc |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 threw | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 covered | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 twigs | case |
| 20 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nettles | cc |
| 22 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 twigs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | flashing | the Psyche | this | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent psyche=Material into this=Product | |||
| 2 | throw | past | flashing not said here | earth | in marble | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent earth=Theme in she=Destination | |||
| 3 | cover up | participle | flashing not said here | the spot | with twigs and nettles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Destination with twig=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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