Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 21
And she turned away and looked maliciously at the deep valley where the railway train was rushing by. "
Who acts: Maiden, railway train · What happens: turn away, look, rush
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, railway train), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 7 | maliciously | maliciously | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 valley | amod |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 rushing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 train | det |
| 14 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 train | compound |
| 15 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rushing | aux |
| 17 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 valley | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 rushing | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | Maiden | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Maiden not said here | at the deep valley; maliciously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at valley=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | past · progressive | the railway train | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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