Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 88
Her cheeks reddened, her lips grew white, and her eyes flashed fire, though they were dark as the blackness of night.
Who acts: cheeks, lips, eyes · What happens: redden, grow, flash, be · To what, where: fire
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 (cheeks, lips, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reddened | nsubj |
| 3 | reddened | redden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reddened | conj |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flashed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flashed | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flashed | nsubj |
| 13 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reddened | parataxis |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flashed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dark | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 dark | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dark | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dark | cop |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flashed | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 blackness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blackness | det |
| 22 | blackness | blackness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dark | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blackness | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reddened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redden | past | marble's cheeks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | marble's lips | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flash | past | marble's eyes | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | lips = lip | as the blackness of night; dark property | 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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