Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 16
Yet when he tried to rouse himself a little, every object around him danced and trembled before his eyes.
Who acts: rain, object · What happens: try, rouse, dance, tremble · To what, where: rain, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, object), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 15 danced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tried | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danced | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rouse | mark |
| 6 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 rouse | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rouse | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 object | det |
| 12 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 object | nmod |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trembled | cc |
| 17 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danced | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trembled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | rain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rouse not said to happen | to-infinitive | rain not said here | rain | a little obl:unmarked | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | dance | past | every object around rain | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tremble | past | every object around rain not said here | rain's eyes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=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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