Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 7
A whole life drama is unfolding itself before her inward gaze.
Who acts: whole life drama, maid · What happens: unfold, gaze · To what, where: drama
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole life drama, maid), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drama | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drama | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drama | compound |
| 4 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unfolding | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfolding | aux |
| 6 | unfolding | unfold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 unfolding | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 gaze | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 10 | inward | inward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gaze | amod |
| 11 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unfolding | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unfolding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfold | present · progressive | a whole life drama | drama | before maid's inward gaze | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 2 | gaze | maid | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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