Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 179
The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before him, just as he remembered her in the days of her childhood.
Who acts: living, Ib · What happens: breathe, stand, remember · To what, where: embodiment, living
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 (living, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 living | det |
| 2 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathing | punct |
| 4 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 living | acl |
| 5 | embodiment | embodiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathing | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Christina | case |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Christina | amod |
| 8 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 embodiment | nmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 remembered | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 days | det |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 remembered | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 childhood | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 23 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 days | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | the living not said here | embodiment of Little Christina | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embodiment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the living | before Ib | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | Ib | living | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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