Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 55
For a moment all was dark before his eyes, but when he opened them again it was light, and the Alpine maiden had vanished.
Who acts: Maiden, kiss, Alpine maiden · What happens: be, open, vanish · To what, where: 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 (Maiden, kiss, Alpine 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dark | obl |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 dark | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dark | cop |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dark | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 light | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 light | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 opened | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 light | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 opened | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 light | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 light | cop |
| 19 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dark | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vanished | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 vanished | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 maiden | det |
| 23 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 maiden | amod |
| 24 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vanished | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 vanished | aux |
| 26 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 dark | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | before Maiden's eyes; moment | all, dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Maiden | eyes = eye | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | kiss | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vanish | past · perfect | the Alpine maiden | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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