Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 46
Quickly he passed into another heart, which had the appearance of a spacious, holy church, with the white dove of innocence fluttering over the altar.
Who acts: rain, white dove · What happens: pass, have, flutter · To what, where: heart, appearance, altar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, white dove), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 appearance | det |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 church | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 church | det |
| 14 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 church | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spacious | punct |
| 16 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 church | amod |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dove | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dove | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dove | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dove | amod |
| 22 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 innocence | case |
| 24 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dove | nmod |
| 25 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 dove | acl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 altar | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 altar | det |
| 28 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fluttering | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | rain | another heart | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | the appearance of a spacious holy church | with the white dove of innocence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flutter | gerund | the white dove of innocence not said here | the altar | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over altar=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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