Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 212
The more deeply he looked into his own heart, the blacker did the darkness seem. "
Who acts: evil, blacker, darkness · What happens: look, do, seem
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 (evil, blacker, darkness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 deeply | advmod |
| 3 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 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 | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blacker | det |
| 12 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 darkness | det |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seem | nsubj |
| 16 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | evil | into evil's own heart; deeply property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the blacker | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | the darkness | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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