Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 130
She turned in the direction of the church, and the weight on her heart seemed to grow lighter, and even to vanish altogether; but when she turned to go home by the shortest way, it returned. "
Who acts: sound, weight · What happens: turn, seem, grow, vanish, go, return · To what, where: direction
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, weight), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 direction | det |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 direction | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weight | det |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weight | nmod |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grow | mark |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 grow | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanish | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 vanish | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 vanish | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 vanish | mark |
| 24 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 grow | conj |
| 25 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 24 vanish | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 returned | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 returned | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 turned | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 turned | nsubj |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 returned | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 turned | xcomp |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 36 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 way | amod |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turned | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 returned | nsubj |
| 40 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sound | the direction of the church | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the weight on sound's heart | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | the weight on sound's heart not said here | light property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vanish | to-infinitive | the weight on sound's heart not said here | altogether property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | sound | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | sound not said here | by the shortest way; home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location | ||||
| 7 | return | past | weight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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