Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 148
Close by her galloped four snorting steeds, with fire flashing from their eyes and nostrils.
Who acts: Anne, fire · What happens: gallop, flash · To what, where: four snorting steeds, eyes
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, fire), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 galloped | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 galloped | mark |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 steeds | nummod |
| 6 | snorting | snorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steeds | compound |
| 7 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 galloped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steeds | appos |
| 11 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fire | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flashing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nostrils | cc |
| 16 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eyes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | Anne | four snorting steeds | close property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Agent | |||
| 2 | flash | gerund | fire not said here | steeds's eyes and nostrils | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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