Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 12
These were the sights and sounds without; within there were visions, for Babette had a wonderful dream.
Who acts: These, visions, Babette · What happens: be, have · To what, where: sights, wonderful dream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, visions, Babette), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 sights | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sights | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sights | det |
| 4 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sounds | cc |
| 6 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sights | conj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 without | punct |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sights | advcl |
| 12 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 were | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dream | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dream | amod |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | the sights and sounds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | visions | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Babette | a wonderful dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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