Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 16

She told with such an air of truth, that black spots danced before the eyes of all who heard her, and the floor became black with human blood; terrible to see and to hear, and yet so entertaining, because such a long time had passed since it all happened.

Who acts: charming, eyes, floor, long time, it · What happens: tell, dance, hear, become, see, pass · To what, where: air, charming · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charming, eyes, floor, long time), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 air	case
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 air	det:predet
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 truth	case
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 danced	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 danced	nsubj:pass
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	nsubj
13	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 air	acl
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eyes	det
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 eyes	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eyes	acl:relcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 floor	det
25	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 blood	case
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 blood	amod
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 black	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 terrible	punct
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 terrible	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hear	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hear	mark
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 entertaining	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 entertaining	cc
40	yet	yet	ADV	_	42 entertaining	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 entertaining	advmod
42	entertaining	entertaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 passed	punct
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	50 passed	mark
45	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	48 time	det:predet
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 time	det
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 time	amod
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 passed	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 passed	aux
50	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 entertaining	conj
51	since	since	SCONJ	_	54 happened	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 happened	nsubj
53	all	all	ADV	_	54 happened	advmod
54	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 passed	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	charming			with such air of truth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	participle · passive		such air of truth	before the eyes of all		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hear	past	the eyes of all	charming			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	become	past	the floor			black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	see	to-infinitive	charming not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	to-infinitive	charming not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	pass	past · perfect	such long time				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	happen	past	it			all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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