Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 50
It was a fiery look, that seemed at once to elevate and to crush him.
Who acts: smile, fiery look · What happens: be, seem, elevate, crush · To what, where: fiery look, look
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 (smile, fiery look), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 4 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | amod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 seemed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 elevate | mark |
| 12 | elevate | elevate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crush | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 crush | mark |
| 15 | crush | crush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 elevate | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crush | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | smile | a fiery look | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a fiery look | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | elevate | to-infinitive | a fiery look not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | crush | to-infinitive | a fiery look not said here | look | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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