Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 161
Yes, it fled away over the sea; it was the ocean spectre; and, exhausted and overpowered, Anne Lisbeth sunk to the ground, and her senses left her.
Who acts: voice, senses · What happens: flee away, be, exhaust, overpower, leave · To what, where: sea, ocean spectre, name
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 (voice, senses), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fled | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 spectre | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spectre | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spectre | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spectre | det |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spectre | compound |
| 14 | spectre | spectre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 exhausted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 exhausted | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exhausted | punct |
| 18 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fled | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 overpowered | cc |
| 20 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 exhausted | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sunk | punct |
| 22 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sunk | compound |
| 23 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Anne | flat |
| 24 | sunk | sunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sunk | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 left | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 senses | nmod:poss |
| 31 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fled | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee away | past | voice | the sea | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | voice | the ocean spectre | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | voice not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | overpower | participle | voice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | name's senses | name | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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