Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 24
But when he gazed at the red hearts, their colors glowed more deeply, even as flames, and his memory followed each in turn.
Who acts: Denmark, colors, memory · What happens: gaze, glow, follow · To what, where: each, turn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denmark, colors, memory), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 glowed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gazed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glowed | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 hearts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearts | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearts | amod |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gazed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 colors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glowed | nsubj |
| 12 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 deeply | advmod |
| 14 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 12 glowed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flames | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 flames | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 flames | case |
| 18 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glowed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 followed | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 memory | nmod:poss |
| 22 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glowed | conj |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 followed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 turn | case |
| 26 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | Denmark | at the red hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glow | past | hearts's colors | as flames; deeply property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Denmark's memory | each | turn | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme in turn=Trajectory |
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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