Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 137

Babette had quite vanished from his thoughts, when he was struck on the shoulder by a heavy hand, and a deep voice said to him in French, "You are from the canton Valais."

Who acts: Babette, heavy hand, deep voice · What happens: vanish, strike, say, be, think · To what, where: thoughts, Babette, French, canton · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, heavy hand, deep voice), 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	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	aux
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 vanished	advmod
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 thoughts	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 thoughts	nmod:poss
7	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vanished	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 struck	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 struck	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	aux:pass
12	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thoughts	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 shoulder	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoulder	det
15	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 hand	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hand	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 voice	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 French	case
29	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 canton	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 canton	punct
32	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 canton	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 canton	cop
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 canton	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 canton	det
36	canton	canton	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
37	Valais	Valais	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 canton	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vanished	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	Babette			Babette's thoughts		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from thought=Initial_Location
2	strike	past · passive	a heavy hand	Babette			on the shoulder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on shoulder=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	a deep voice		Babette	French		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	Babette			the canton		tree rules
5	think		Babette					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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