Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 86
Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air.
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: be, step, inhale, invigorate · To what, where: Bright feelings, invigorating mountain air
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 (Rudy), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feelings | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 joyous | cc |
| 3 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bright | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feelings | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stepped | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 stepped | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 11 onwards | advmod |
| 11 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 9 stepped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inhaling | punct |
| 13 | inhaling | inhale | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stepped | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 15 | invigorating | invigorate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 air | amod |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 air | compound |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inhaling | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rudy's Bright feelings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | step | past | Rudy | onwards property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inhale | gerund | Rudy not said here | the invigorating mountain air | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invigorate | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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