Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 4
"A short time ago"--the Star's "short time ago" is called among men "centuries ago"--"my rays followed a young artist.
Who acts: rays, my · What happens: call, follow, ray · To what, where: Star, young artist · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rays, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Star | det |
| 9 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Star | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 Star | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 21 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 called | advmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ago | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 followed | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 followed | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rays | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 followed | nsubj |
| 28 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 artist | det |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 artist | amod |
| 31 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 followed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the Star | time | among men; ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow in a quote | past | my rays | a young artist | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ray in a quote | my | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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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