Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 169
"The last I saw of them was the pale hyacinth, Anna Dorothea.
Who acts: last · What happens: see, be · To what, where: pale hyacinth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 last | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hyacinth | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hyacinth | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hyacinth | det |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hyacinth | amod |
| 11 | hyacinth | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anna | punct |
| 13 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hyacinth | appos |
| 14 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anna | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hyacinth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the last | of daughters = daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the pale hyacinth | tree rules |
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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