Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 18
The eyes of the brave Rudy sparkled as he described the life of a hunter, or spoke of the cunning of the chamois and their wonderful leaps; also of the powerful fohn and the rolling avalanche.
Who acts: eyes, Rudy · What happens: sparkle, describe, speak, roll, leap · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eyes | det |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sparkled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rudy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rudy | det |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Rudy | amod |
| 6 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 described | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 described | nsubj |
| 10 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sparkled | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 described | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hunter | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunter | det |
| 15 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoke | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 spoke | cc |
| 18 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sparkled | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cunning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cunning | det |
| 21 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoke | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chamois | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chamois | det |
| 24 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cunning | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 leaps | cc |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 leaps | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leaps | amod |
| 28 | leaps | leap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 chamois | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 fohn | punct |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 fohn | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fohn | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fohn | det |
| 33 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fohn | amod |
| 34 | fohn | fohn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sparkled | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 avalanche | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 avalanche | det |
| 37 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 avalanche | amod |
| 38 | avalanche | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fohn | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | past | the eyes of the brave Rudy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | describe | past | Rudy | the life of a hunter | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | of the cunning of the chamois and eyes's wonderful leaps | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | leap | eyes = eye | nom leap «act 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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