Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 90
Here the dreams again flitted by them but so quickly that Gerda could not distinguish the royal persons.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: flit, not distinguish · To what, where: dreams, royal persons
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dreams | det |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 flitted | advmod |
| 5 | flitted | flit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dreams | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flitted | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 quickly | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Here | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 distinguish | mark |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 distinguish | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 distinguish | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 distinguish | advmod |
| 15 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Here | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 persons | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 persons | amod |
| 18 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 distinguish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flit | participle | the dreams not said here | again | by dreams = dream | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not distinguish | could | Gerda | the royal persons | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute person=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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