Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 11
The maiden's eyes shone with an unearthly power, which obliged you to look into them; they were strange eyes,--clear, deep, and unfathomable.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: shine, oblige, look, be · To what, where: eyes, you, strange eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 maiden | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 5 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eyes | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 8 | unearthly | unearthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 power | amod |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obliged | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 obliged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eyes | cop |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 obliged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 clear | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 clear | punct |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 deep | punct |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 clear | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 unfathomable | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 unfathomable | cc |
| 30 | unfathomable | unfathomable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 obliged | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the maiden's eyes not said here | with a unearthly power | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past | the maiden's eyes | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the maiden's eyes not said here | into eyes = eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | eyes = eye | strange eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | eyes = eye not said here | tree rules |
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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