Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 14
The cloth which covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face expressed peace--a sunbeam fell upon it.
Who acts: cloth, face, sunbeam · What happens: cover, lift up, express, fall · To what, where: face, cloth, peace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, face, sunbeam), 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 cloth | det |
| 2 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 lifted | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 expressed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expressed | nsubj |
| 16 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | parataxis |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expressed | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sunbeam | det |
| 20 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 expressed | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the cloth | student's face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past · passive | the cloth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | express | past | the dead man's face | peace | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | a sunbeam | face | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
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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