Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 26
But she was gone--the brightness had disappeared; the flowers no longer appeared like flames, although still as beautiful as ever.
Who acts: foreigner, brightness, flowers · What happens: be, disappear, appear
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 (foreigner, brightness, flowers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 gone | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 disappeared | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brightness | det |
| 7 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disappeared | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disappeared | aux |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 flames | case |
| 17 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appeared | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | mark |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 beautiful | advmod |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 appeared | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 beautiful | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | foreigner | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the brightness | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | the flowers | like flames; long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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