Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 52
Casting his eyes on the first page of one, he read, "'Mistress Sigbirth; an original Tragedy, in Five Acts.'
Who acts: perfume · What happens: cast, read · To what, where: eyes, first page, Mistress Sigbirth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perfume), 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 | Casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 read | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Casting | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 page | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 page | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 page | amod |
| 7 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Casting | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 page | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Casting | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 read | nsubj |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sigbirth | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sigbirth | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sigbirth | punct |
| 16 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sigbirth | compound |
| 17 | Sigbirth | sigbirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tragedy | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Tragedy | det |
| 20 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Tragedy | amod |
| 21 | Tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Acts | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Acts | case |
| 24 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 Acts | nummod |
| 25 | Acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Tragedy | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Acts | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Acts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | gerund | perfume not said here | perfume's eyes | the first page of one | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on page=Destination | |||
| 2 | read | past | perfume | Mistress Sigbirth | a original Tragedy obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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