Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 72
Her eyes spoke, her lips spoke, but the sound of violins and of flutes drowned the sound of her voice.
Who acts: eyes, lips, sound · What happens: speak, drown · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, lips, sound), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drowned | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 drowned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drowned | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 violins | case |
| 13 | violins | violin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sound | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flutes | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flutes | case |
| 16 | flutes | flute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 violins | conj |
| 17 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drowned | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | joviality's eyes | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | joviality's lips | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drown | past | the sound of violins and flutes | the sound of joviality's voice | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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