Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 32
Here she saw stem by stem, but she looked up also; the sun shone through the leaves, which were quite transparent; and she felt as a person would feel who steps suddenly into a great forest, where the sun looks in between the branches and leaves.
Who acts: heart, sun, leaves, person · What happens: see, look up, shine, be, feel, step · To what, where: stem, leaves, great forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, sun, leaves, person), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 stem | case |
| 6 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shone | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | nsubj |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 leaves | det |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shone | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 transparent | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 transparent | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 transparent | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 transparent | advmod |
| 24 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaves | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 felt | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 felt | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 feel | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 person | det |
| 31 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 feel | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 feel | aux |
| 33 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 felt | ccomp |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 steps | nsubj |
| 35 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 feel | ccomp |
| 36 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 35 steps | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 forest | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 forest | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 forest | amod |
| 40 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 steps | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 looks | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 looks | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sun | det |
| 44 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 looks | nsubj |
| 45 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 forest | acl:relcl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 branches | case |
| 47 | between | between | ADP | _ | 49 branches | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 branches | det |
| 49 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 looks | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 leaves | cc |
| 51 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 branches | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | heart | stem | here | by stem | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stem=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look up | past | heart | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | shine | participle | the sun | the leaves | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the leaves | transparent property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | sun | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | feel | would | a person | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | step | present | a great forest | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | ||||
| 8 | look | present | the sun | in the branches and leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in branch=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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