Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 52
But these mirrors magnified in an astonishing degree; in the middle of the floor sat, like the Grand Lama, the insignificant I of the owner, astonished at the contemplation of his own features.
Who acts: mirrors, I, rain · What happens: magnify, astonish, sit, insignificant, contemplate, feature · To what, where: mirrors, astonishing degree, insignificant, contemplation, own features
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 (mirrors, I, rain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 mirrors | det |
| 3 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | magnified | magnify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mirrors | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 degree | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 degree | det |
| 7 | astonishing | astonish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 degree | amod |
| 8 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magnified | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 middle | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mirrors | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lama | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 Lama | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lama | det |
| 20 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Lama | amod |
| 21 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 insignificant | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 insignificant | det |
| 24 | insignificant | insignificant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Lama | appos |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 insignificant | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 owner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 owner | det |
| 28 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 insignificant | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astonished | punct |
| 30 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 insignificant | acl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 contemplation | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 contemplation | det |
| 33 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 astonished | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 features | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 features | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 features | amod |
| 37 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 contemplation | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magnify | participle | this mirrors in the middle of the floor not said here | a astonishing degree | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | astonish | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sit | past | this mirrors in the middle of the floor | like the Grand Lama | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | insignificant | I | of the owner | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | astonish | participle | the insignificant not said here | the contemplation of rain's own features | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | contemplate | rain's own features | nom contemplation «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | feature | rain | nom feature «cognition 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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