Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 186
They arrived at length at the baths, where there were many strangers, and among them a beautiful princess, whose real disease consisted in being too sharp-sighted, which made every one very uneasy.
Who acts: Sorrow, real disease · What happens: arrive, be, consist, sight, make · To what, where: length, many strangers, real disease, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, real disease), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 baths | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baths | det |
| 7 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 arrived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strangers | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 were | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strangers | cop |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 strangers | amod |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 baths | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 them | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 them | cc |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 them | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 disease | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 disease | nmod:poss |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 disease | amod |
| 24 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 princess | conj |
| 25 | consisted | consist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 disease | acl |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 31 sighted | mark |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sighted | aux:pass |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 sighted | advmod |
| 29 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sighted | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sharp | punct |
| 31 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 consisted | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 made | nsubj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 disease | acl:relcl |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 uneasy | advmod |
| 38 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 made | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Sorrow | length | at the baths | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | many strangers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | consist | participle | a beautiful princess and a beautiful princess and real disease's real disease's real disease not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sight | gerund · passive | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 5 | make | past | a beautiful princess and a beautiful princess's real disease's real disease | every one | uneasy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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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