Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 28
No one saw her as she walked, nor did she see any one; for her eyes were fixed upon the one object of her wanderings.
Who acts: one, word · What happens: see, walk, fix, wander · To what, where: word, one, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, word), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walked | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walked | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fixed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 fixed | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fixed | aux:pass |
| 20 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 object | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 object | det |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 object | nummod |
| 24 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fixed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wanderings | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 object | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | no one | word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | word | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past · do-support | word | any one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fix | past · passive | word's eyes | upon the one object of word's wanderings | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wander | word | nom wandering «act 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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