Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 53
His eyes were fixed on one spot in the distance--a light that twinkled through the foliage from the parlor of the miller's house, where Babette dwelt.
Who acts: light, Babette · What happens: fix, twinkle, dwell · To what, where: eyes, one spot, foliage
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 (light, Babette), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spot | nummod |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 distance | det |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spot | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distance | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 twinkled | nsubj |
| 15 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 light | acl:relcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 foliage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foliage | det |
| 18 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 twinkled | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 parlor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 parlor | det |
| 21 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 twinkled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 miller | det |
| 24 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 miller | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 parlor | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dwelt | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 dwelt | advmod |
| 29 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 dwelt | nsubj |
| 30 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 parlor | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | happiness's eyes | one spot in the distance and a light | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | twinkle | past | a light | the foliage | from the parlor of the miller's house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foliage=Location | |||
| 3 | dwell | past | Babette | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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