Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 44
As quickly as if carried by the winged thoughts they were in the great city, and from the walls the names of the deadly sins shone in flaming letters: pride, avarice, drunkenness, wantonness--in short, the whole seven-coloured bow of sin.
Who acts: thoughts · What happens: carry, wing, be, shine, name · To what, where: walls, winged thoughts, great city, deadly sins, flaming letters
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts), 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 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 carried | cc |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 As | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 carried | mark |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 thoughts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thoughts | det |
| 8 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thoughts | amod |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 city | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 city | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 city | amod |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thoughts | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walls | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walls | cc |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 walls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 walls | det |
| 20 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 names | det |
| 22 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walls | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sins | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sins | det |
| 25 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sins | amod |
| 26 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 names | nmod |
| 27 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sins | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 letters | case |
| 29 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 letters | compound |
| 30 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shone | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 pride | punct |
| 32 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 letters | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 avarice | punct |
| 34 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pride | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 drunkenness | punct |
| 36 | drunkenness | drunkenness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pride | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wantonness | punct |
| 38 | wantonness | wantonness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pride | conj |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 short | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 short | case |
| 41 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shone | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 bow | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 bow | det |
| 44 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 bow | amod |
| 45 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 coloured | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 seven | punct |
| 47 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 bow | amod |
| 48 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walls | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 sin | case |
| 50 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bow | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | participle | the walls the names of the deadly sins and the whole coloured bow of sin | by the winged thoughts | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from wall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | thoughts = thought | the winged thoughts not said here | the great city | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shine | participle | the deadly sins not said here | flaming letters and pride and avarice and drunkenness and wantonness | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location | ||||
| 5 | name | the deadly sins | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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