Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 147
Silently, as the cloud-shadows in the moonshine, a spectral apparition flitted by her; she had heard of it before.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: flit, hear · To what, where: spectral apparition
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 (Anne), 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 | Silently | silently | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Silently | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 shadows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shadows | det |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadows | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloud | punct |
| 7 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Silently | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moonshine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moonshine | det |
| 10 | moonshine | moonshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadows | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 apparition | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 apparition | det |
| 13 | spectral | spectral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apparition | amod |
| 14 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moonshine | appos |
| 15 | flitted | flit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 apparition | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flitted | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 apparition | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | obl |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Silently | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flit | participle | a spectral apparition not said here | by Anne | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Anne | a spectral apparition not said here | of moonshine; before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer apparition=Stimulus |
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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