Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 25
They laughed and wept over the letter; and he, far away, amid ice and snow, under the shadow of the angel's wings, wept and smiled with them in spirit; for he saw and heard it all in his dream.
Who acts: regions, letter · What happens: laugh, weep, smile, see, hear, shadow · To what, where: letter, shadow, spirit, dream, wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (regions, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14056): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wept | cc |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wept | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wept | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 away | punct |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 wept | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ice | punct |
| 15 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 16 ice | case |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wept | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 snow | cc |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ice | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shadow | punct |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 shadow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shadow | det |
| 22 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wept | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wings | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 angel | det |
| 25 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wings | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 angel | case |
| 27 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shadow | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wept | punct |
| 29 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smiled | cc |
| 31 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wept | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 smiled | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 spirit | case |
| 35 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smiled | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 saw | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 saw | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wept | advcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 heard | cc |
| 41 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 saw | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 heard | obj |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 it | det |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 dream | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 dream | nmod:poss |
| 46 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 heard | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | regions = region | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | regions = region not said here | the letter | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | letter | the shadow of the angel's wings | amid ice and snow; away property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | smile | past | letter not said here | with regions = region; in spirit | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spirit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | hear | past | letter not said here | spirit | letter's dream | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | shadow | the angel's wings | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | dream | letter | nom dream «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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