Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 127
The fishes stared out into the twilight.
Who acts: fishes · What happens: stare out
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes), 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 | 2 fishes | det |
| 2 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 stared | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 twilight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twilight | det |
| 7 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare out | past | the fishes | into the twilight; out property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into twilight=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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