Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 63
The heavy stone appeared as a gliding, dancing, airy Psyche, with the heavenly innocent smile--the smile that had mirrored itself in the soul of the young artist.
Who acts: heavy stone, smile · What happens: appear, mirror · To what, where: stone, soul
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 (heavy stone, smile), 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 | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 gliding | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gliding | det |
| 7 | gliding | gliding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dancing | punct |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gliding | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Psyche | punct |
| 11 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Psyche | amod |
| 12 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dancing | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smile | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 smile | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 smile | det |
| 16 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smile | amod |
| 17 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smile | amod |
| 18 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 smile | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 smile | det |
| 21 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smile | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 mirrored | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mirrored | aux |
| 24 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 smile | acl:relcl |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 mirrored | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 soul | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soul | det |
| 28 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mirrored | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 artist | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 artist | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 artist | amod |
| 32 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 soul | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the heavy stone | as a gliding and dancing; with the heavenly innocent smile and the smile | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mirror | past · perfect | the smile | stone | the soul of the young artist | tree rules |
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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