Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 5
And she raised her proud head, and looked around her with eyes that flashed death from their glance.
Who acts: Geneva, eyes · What happens: raise, look, flash, glance · To what, where: proud head, death, glance
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 (Geneva, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 raised | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flashed | nsubj |
| 15 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashed | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 glance | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 glance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Geneva | Geneva's proud head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Geneva not said here | around Geneva; with eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flash | past | eyes | death | eyes's glance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent death=Theme | |||
| 4 | glance | eyes = eye | nom glance «act intransitive»: 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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