Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 63
And as she finished speaking, she touched her hand lightly with the nettle, and a pain, as of burning fire, awoke Eliza.
Who acts: life, pain · What happens: finish, speak, touch, burn, awake · To what, where: hand, Eliza · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (life, pain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 touched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 finished | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | advcl |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 finished | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 8 touched | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 nettle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nettle | det |
| 14 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 awoke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 awoke | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pain | det |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 awoke | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fire | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 fire | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 fire | amod |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pain | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pain | punct |
| 25 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | conj |
| 26 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 awoke | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | life | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | life not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | life | life's hand | with the nettle; lightly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer with nettle=Instrument | |||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | awake | past | a pain and burning fire | Eliza | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eliza=Theme |
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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