Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 64
He did not know whose closed eyes were there, nor what red lips were fading beneath the earth.
Who acts: brother, closed eyes, red lips · What happens: not know, close, be, fade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, closed eyes, red lips), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 there | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fading | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 fading | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 fading | obj |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lips | amod |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fading | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fading | aux |
| 16 | fading | fade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | conj |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fading | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | closed eyes | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fade | past · progressive | red lips | beneath the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=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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