Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 178
A strange sensation came over Ib, as he caught sight of it.
Who acts: strange sensation, Ib · What happens: come, catch, sight · To what, where: Ib, sight, sensation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange sensation, Ib), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sensation | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sensation | amod |
| 3 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Ib | case |
| 6 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 caught | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sight | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a strange sensation | Ib | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over ib=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Ib | sight of sensation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | sensation | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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