Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 14

His eyes were quite eloquent, and his words possessed a magic power; he offered her his hand, and she was obliged to follow him.

Who acts: eyes, words, Rudy · What happens: be, possess, offer, oblige, follow, word · To what, where: magic power, hand, Babette, Rudy

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 (eyes, words, Rudy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eloquent	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eloquent	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 eloquent	advmod
5	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 possessed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 possessed	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 words	nmod:poss
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 possessed	nsubj
10	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eloquent	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 power	det
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 power	compound
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 offered	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 offered	nsubj
16	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eloquent	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 offered	iobj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obliged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obliged	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obliged	aux:pass
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 offered	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 follow	mark
26	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 obliged	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 follow	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eloquent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rudy's eyes			eloquent property	tree rules
2	possess	past	Rudy's words	a magic power			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme
3	offer	past	Rudy	Rudy's hand	Babette		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal hand=Theme
4	oblige	past · passive		Babette			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	follow	to-infinitive		Rudy			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	word		Rudy				nom word «communication 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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