Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 76
She could fancy she saw him smiling at her, as he used to at home, when they sat among the roses.
Who acts: Gerda, Kay, eyes · What happens: fancy, see, smile, use, sit · To what, where: Kay, home, roses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Kay, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smiling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 used | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 used | nsubj |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 used | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 sat | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | conj |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 roses | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 roses | det |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | could | Gerda | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Gerda | Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | Gerda not said here | at Gerda | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | past | Kay | home | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | eyes = eye | the roses | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among rose=Location |
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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