Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 94
Then he woke up to madness and agony, and seized his hammer, swung it high in the air, and rushed forward to shatter the beautiful marble image.
Who acts: face · What happens: wake up, seize, swing, rush, shatter · To what, where: hammer, beautiful marble image
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 (face), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 madness | case |
| 6 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 agony | cc |
| 8 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 madness | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swung | punct |
| 15 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swung | obj |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 swung | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 high | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rushed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rushed | cc |
| 23 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 rushed | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 shatter | mark |
| 26 | shatter | shatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 rushed | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 image | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 image | amod |
| 29 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 image | amod |
| 30 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shatter | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | face | then | to madness and agony | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | seize | past | face not said here | face's hammer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swing | past | face not said here | hammer | high property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | rush | past | face not said here | forward property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | shatter | to-infinitive | face not said here | the beautiful marble image | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=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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