Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 39
Then he closed his eyes once more, and slept and dreamed.
Who acts: Joanna · What happens: close, sleep, dream · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joanna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 closed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closed | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 closed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slept | cc |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 closed | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dreamed | cc |
| 12 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slept | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | Joanna | Joanna's eyes | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dream | past | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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