Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 7
Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different direction; but he was not near enough to take a sure aim.
Who acts: eyes, thoughts, gentian · What happens: glisten, fly, not be, take, think · To what, where: different direction, sure aim
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 (eyes, thoughts, gentian), 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 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rudy | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glistened | nsubj |
| 4 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glistened | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 flew | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 direction | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 direction | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 direction | amod |
| 15 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 enough | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 enough | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 enough | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 enough | advmod |
| 21 | near | near | ADV | _ | 22 enough | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 take | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glistened | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 aim | det |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 aim | amod |
| 27 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glistened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | participle | Rudy's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | gentian's thoughts | a different direction | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | gentian | enough, near property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Rudy's eyes not said here | a sure aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think | gentian | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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