Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 111
For a few moments the strange lady seemed to rest; but she awoke in pain, and uttered cries of anguish and fear.
Who acts: strange lady, lady, anguish · What happens: seem, rest, awake, utter, cry · To what, where: pain, cries
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange lady, lady, anguish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10744): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seemed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rest | mark |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 awoke | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 awoke | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 awoke | nsubj |
| 14 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seemed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pain | case |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 uttered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 uttered | cc |
| 19 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awoke | conj |
| 20 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 uttered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 anguish | case |
| 22 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fear | cc |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anguish | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the strange lady | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | the strange lady not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | lady | pain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | lady not said here | cries of anguish and fear | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cry | anguish and fear | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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