Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 96
Well, I saw her once for a very short moment, while sleep weighed down my eyelids.
Who acts: I, sleep · What happens: see, weigh down · To what, where: poetry, eyelids
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 (I, sleep), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 saw | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 short | advmod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moment | amod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weighed | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 weighed | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weighed | nsubj |
| 15 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 weighed | compound:prt |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 weighed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | poetry | moment | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | weigh down | past | sleep | my eyelids | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme eyelid=Value |
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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