Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 132
When the eye of the murdered man closes, the picture of what it saw last clings to it for a time like a photographic picture.
Who acts: eye, picture · What happens: murder, close, see · To what, where: picture, memory
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 (eye, picture), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 closes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eye | det |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closes | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eye | nmod |
| 8 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 picture | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 closes | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 picture | det |
| 11 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 saw | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 picture | acl:relcl |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clings | amod |
| 17 | clings | cling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 picture | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 picture | det |
| 25 | photographic | photographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 picture | amod |
| 26 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | close | present | the eye of the murdered man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | picture | the picture | memory | time | tree rules |
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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