Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 60
That is madness--a joyless madness--besieged by fear and dreadful dreams!"
What happens: be, besiege · To what, where: madness, joyless madness
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: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 madness | det |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 madness | cop |
| 3 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 madness | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 madness | det |
| 6 | joyless | joyless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 madness | amod |
| 7 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 madness | appos |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 besieged | punct |
| 9 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 madness | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 besieged | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dreams | cc |
| 13 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dreams | amod |
| 14 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fear | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 madness | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 madness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that madness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | besiege | participle | a joyless madness not said here | by fear and dreadful dreams | tree rules |
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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