Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 34
He smiled--the young wife raised her hand in gentle reproof, and the shadow passed away from her mind, and they were happy--quite happy.
Who acts: husband, young wife, shadow, shadows, wife · What happens: smile, raise, pass away, be, mind · To what, where: hand, gentle reproof, mind
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 (husband, young wife, shadow, shadows), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 reproof | case |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reproof | amod |
| 12 | reproof | reproof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shadow | det |
| 16 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | parataxis |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 mind | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 happy | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 happy | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 happy | cop |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smiled | parataxis |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 happy | punct |
| 28 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 29 happy | advmod |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 happy | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | husband | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | the young wife | wife's hand | gentle reproof | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in reproof=Destination | |||
| 3 | pass away | past | the shadow | wife's mind | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from mind=Causer | |||
| 4 | is | past | shadows = shadow | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | shadows = shadow not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | mind | wife | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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