Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 256
The bright Morning Star in the roseate air threw its glancing ray downward upon the Psyche, and upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators, who here beheld the image of the soul portrayed in marble.
Who acts: bright Morning Star, admiring spectators, life · What happens: throw, admire, behold, portray, ray, image · To what, where: glancing ray, roseate air, image, soul, marble
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 (bright Morning Star, admiring spectators, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Star | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Star | amod |
| 3 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Star | compound |
| 4 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 7 | roseate | roseate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 air | amod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ray | nmod:poss |
| 11 | glancing | glancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ray | compound |
| 12 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 13 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 9 threw | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Psyche | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Psyche | det |
| 16 | Psyche | psyche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 countenances | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 countenances | cc |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 countenances | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 countenances | det |
| 21 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 countenances | amod |
| 22 | countenances | countenance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 spectators | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spectators | det |
| 25 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 spectators | amod |
| 26 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 countenances | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beheld | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 beheld | nsubj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 who | advmod |
| 30 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spectators | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 image | det |
| 32 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beheld | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 soul | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 soul | det |
| 35 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 image | nmod |
| 36 | portrayed | portray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 soul | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 marble | case |
| 38 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 portrayed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the bright Morning Star | life's glancing ray | the roseate air | upon the Psyche; upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators; downward property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ray=Theme in air=Destination | ||
| 2 | admire | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | behold | past | the admiring spectators | the image of the soul | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | portray | participle | the soul not said here | marble | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ray | life | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | image | the soul | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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