Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 153

She gathered herself up, and hastened to the churchyard; but black crosses and black ravens danced before her eyes, and she could not distinguish one from the other.

Who acts: Anne, black crosses · What happens: gather up, hasten, dance, not distinguish · To what, where: Anne, churchyard, eyes, one

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, black crosses), 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 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gathered	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gathered	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hastened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hastened	cc
7	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gathered	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 churchyard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 churchyard	det
10	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hastened	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 danced	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 danced	cc
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crosses	amod
14	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 danced	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ravens	cc
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ravens	amod
17	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crosses	conj
18	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	parataxis
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 danced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 distinguish	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 distinguish	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 distinguish	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 distinguish	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 distinguish	advmod
27	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 danced	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 distinguish	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 distinguish	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather up	past	Anne	Anne			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	hasten	participle	Anne not said here		the churchyard		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to churchyard=Destination
3	dance	past	black crosses and black ravens		Anne's eyes		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location
4	not distinguish	could	Anne	one		from the other	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme from other=Co-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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