Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 54
Amid all the noise and the turmoil, the colors and the lights, she knew herself watched by mild eyes.
Who acts: mild eyes · What happens: watch · To what, where: colors
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mild eyes), 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 | Amid | amid | ADP | _ | 4 noise | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 noise | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watched | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turmoil | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turmoil | det |
| 7 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noise | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 colors | det |
| 10 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watched | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lights | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lights | det |
| 13 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 colors | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 watched | aux:pass |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 knew | obj |
| 18 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watched | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · passive | mild eyes | the colors and the lights | amid all noise and the turmoil | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/54/