Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 82
Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outer objects, and tears came into his eyes.
Who acts: Kjoge, sight, world, tears · What happens: not catch, do, appear, attract, come, sight · To what, where: thoughts, eyes, lofty mountains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kjoge, sight, world, tears), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 caught | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 8 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountains | amod |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | ccomp |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 free | amod |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appear | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 free | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 attracted | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 attracted | aux:pass |
| 22 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 objects | case |
| 24 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 objects | amod |
| 25 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attracted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 28 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 came | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | past | Kjoge | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | sight of the lofty mountains | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | appear | present | the world | free property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | attract | past · passive | Kjoge's thoughts | to outer objects result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to object=Result | ||||
| 5 | come | past | tears | Kjoge's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | sight | the lofty mountains | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | think | Kjoge | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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