Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 73
We may conjecture that he did not suffer, but his dark eyes lost their brightness, and looked like clouded glass.
Who acts: We, Jurgen, dark eyes · What happens: conjecture, not suffer, lose, look, cloud · To what, where: brightness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Jurgen, dark 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 conjecture | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 conjecture | aux |
| 3 | conjecture | conjecture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 suffer | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 suffer | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 suffer | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 suffer | advmod |
| 8 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 conjecture | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conjecture | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brightness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 glass | case |
| 21 | clouded | cloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 glass | amod |
| 22 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conjecture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conjecture | may | We | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not suffer | past · do-support | Jurgen | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | Jurgen's dark eyes | eyes's brightness | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Jurgen's dark eyes not said here | like clouded glass | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cloud | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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