Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 201
Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have been, even had the sun not shone that morning on Anna Dorothea.
Who acts: eyes, Anna · What happens: glaze, not shine · To what, where: heart breaking, breaking
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 (eyes, Anna), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glazing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glazing | aux |
| 4 | glazing | glaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 breaking | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breaking | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breaking | compound |
| 9 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glazing | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shone | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 shone | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 shone | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shone | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 shone | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 had | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shone | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 shone | advmod |
| 23 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 glazing | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shone | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Anna | case |
| 27 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 shone | obl:agent |
| 28 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Anna | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glaze | past · progressive | splendor's eyes | splendor's heart breaking | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not shine | would · perfect · passive | Anna | breaking | morning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=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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