Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 26
The paralysed girl sits in the warm sunshine and can see the wood and the lake; the world had become so large, so beautiful, and only through a single word from the kind mistress of the mansion.
Who acts: paralysed girl, world · What happens: paralyse, sit, see, become · To what, where: warm sunshine, wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paralysed girl, world), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | paralysed | paralyse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sunshine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sunshine | det |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sunshine | amod |
| 8 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sits | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lake | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wood | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sits | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 large | advmod |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sits | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 word | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 word | cc |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 word | advmod |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 word | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 word | det |
| 32 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 word | amod |
| 33 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beautiful | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 mistress | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mistress | det |
| 36 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mistress | amod |
| 37 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 word | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 mansion | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mansion | det |
| 40 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mistress | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paralyse | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sit | present | the paralysed girl | the warm sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | can | the paralysed girl not said here | the wood and the lake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | the world | large property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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