Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 17
He saw her again, as she once stood before him, a laughing, spirited child; many loving words, which she had spoken to him out of the fulness of her love, came like a ray of sunshine into his heart, and soon it was all sunshine as he thought of Babette.
Who acts: Rudy, loss, heart · What happens: see, stand, laugh, child, speak, come · To what, where: loss, many loving words, Rudy, fulness, heart, sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, loss, heart), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 child | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 14 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 child | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 child | punct |
| 16 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 child | amod |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 words | punct |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 words | amod |
| 20 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 words | amod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spoken | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spoken | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spoken | aux |
| 26 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 words | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spoken | obl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 fulness | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fulness | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fulness | det |
| 32 | fulness | fulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spoken | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 love | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 love | nmod:poss |
| 35 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fulness | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 came | punct |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 ray | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 ray | det |
| 40 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 came | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 sunshine | case |
| 42 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ray | nmod |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 heart | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 came | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 sunshine | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 sunshine | cc |
| 48 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 sunshine | advmod |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 sunshine | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 sunshine | cop |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 sunshine | det |
| 52 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 thought | mark |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 thought | nsubj |
| 55 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | advcl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 Babette | case |
| 57 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 thought | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Rudy | loss | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | past | loss | many loving words | before Rudy | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | child | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | many loving words | Rudy | the fulness of loss's love | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come | past | loss not said here | Rudy's heart | like a ray of sunshine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | is a | past | heart | all sunshine | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | Rudy | of Babette | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | love | loss | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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