Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 60
The white form of Winter sat there still, with his un-wandering gaze fixed on the south.
Who acts: white form, form · What happens: sit, fix, form, gaze · To what, where: un-wandering gaze, south, Winter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white form, form), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 form | amod |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Winter | case |
| 5 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gaze | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gaze | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 12 | un-wandering | un-wandering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gaze | amod |
| 13 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | conj |
| 14 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gaze | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 south | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 south | det |
| 17 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the white form of Winter | there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fix | participle | form's un-wandering gaze not said here | the south | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | form | Winter | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | gaze | form | nom gaze «act intransitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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