Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 49
He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wonderfully clear eyes,--only for a moment; but in that moment words cannot express the effect of his gaze.
Who acts: Maiden · What happens: fling, gaze, not express, effect · To what, where: arms, clear eyes, effect, moment words, gaze
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 (Maiden), 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 flung | nsubj |
| 2 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flung | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 beautiful | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beautiful | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 flung | obl |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gazed | cc |
| 11 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flung | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gazed | obl |
| 14 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 15 clear | advmod |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gazed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moment | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 moment | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 moment | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 express | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 express | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 words | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 words | nsubj |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 words | compound |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 express | obl |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 express | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 express | advmod |
| 31 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flung | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 effect | det |
| 33 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 express | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gaze | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 36 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 effect | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Maiden | Maiden's arms | round the beautiful | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | gaze | past | Maiden not said here | clear eyes | for a moment | into snow | tree rules | ||
| 3 | not express | can | Maiden not said here | the effect of Maiden's gaze | moment words | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | |||
| 4 | effect | Maiden's gaze | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | gaze | Maiden | nom gaze «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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