Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 70
Time-passed--a long bitter time--then Inge heard her name pronounced once more, and saw what seemed two bright stars shining above her.
Who acts: Time, Inge, name, two bright stars, mistress · What happens: pass, hear, pronounce, see, seem, shine · To what, where: two bright stars · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, Inge, name, two bright stars), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | nsubj |
| 15 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 pronounced | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 stars | nummod |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stars | amod |
| 25 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seemed | obj |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stars | acl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shining | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | Time | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Inge | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | past | mistress's name | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Inge not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | two bright stars | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme star=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | two bright stars not said here | above mistress | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location | ||||
| 7 | name | mistress | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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