Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 2
He removed the lid as he spoke, and a pair of yellow eyes, encircled by a black ring, stared forth with a wild, fiery glance, that seemed ready to burn and destroy all that came in its way.
Who acts: Rudy, pair, wild fiery glance, that · What happens: remove, speak, encircle, stare, seem, burn · To what, where: lid, yellow eyes, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, pair, wild fiery glance, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lid | det |
| 4 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 removed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stared | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pair | det |
| 11 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stared | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pair | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 encircled | punct |
| 16 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 eyes | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 ring | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ring | amod |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 encircled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pair | punct |
| 22 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 removed | conj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 stared | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 glance | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 glance | det |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 glance | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wild | punct |
| 28 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 glance | amod |
| 29 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stared | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seemed | punct |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 seemed | nsubj |
| 32 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 glance | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 seemed | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 burn | mark |
| 35 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ready | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 destroy | cc |
| 37 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 burn | conj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 came | det:predet |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 destroy | advcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 way | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 way | nmod:poss |
| 43 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | Rudy | the lid | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Rudy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | encircle | participle | yellow eyes not said here | by a black ring | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stare | past | a pair of yellow eyes | with a wild fiery glance; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | a wild fiery glance | ready property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | burn | to-infinitive | a wild fiery glance not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | destroy | infinitive | a wild fiery glance not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | come | past | that | pair's way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
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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