Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 36
It was stern, yet awakened confidence, and the eyes beamed with youthful radiance.
Who acts: face, eyes · What happens: be, awaken, beam
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 (face, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stern | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stern | cop |
| 3 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 confidence | punct |
| 5 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 confidence | cc |
| 6 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 confidence | amod |
| 7 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stern | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beamed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beamed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beamed | nsubj |
| 12 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stern | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 radiance | case |
| 14 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 radiance | amod |
| 15 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beamed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | face | awakened confidence obl; stern property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awaken | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | beam | participle | the eyes | with youthful radiance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with radiance=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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