Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 238
And see, something was moving in the sunshine, in the sightless cavernous eyes!
Who acts: you, something · What happens: see, move · To what, where: sunshine
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 (you, something), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moving | punct |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 moving | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moving | aux |
| 6 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 see | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sunshine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunshine | det |
| 9 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moving | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 13 | sightless | sightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 14 | cavernous | cavernous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moving | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | move | past · progressive | something | the sunshine | in the sightless cavernous eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Source in eye=Trajectory |
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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