Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 17
Suddenly she found herself forsaken, her clothes torn by the thorns, and her hair gray; she looked upwards in her agony, and there, on the edge of the rock, she espied Rudy.
Who acts: Babette · What happens: find, forsake, tear, look, espy · To what, where: Babette, forsaken clothes, 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 (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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 clothes | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clothes | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 found | obj |
| 9 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 clothes | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 thorns | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thorns | det |
| 12 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 torn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gray | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gray | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 gray | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gray | compound |
| 17 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 21 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 agony | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 agony | nmod:poss |
| 24 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 there | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 there | cc |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 looked | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 edge | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 edge | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 edge | det |
| 31 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 there | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 rock | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rock | det |
| 34 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 edge | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 espied | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 espied | nsubj |
| 37 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 38 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 espied | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Babette | Babette | Babette's hair gray obl; suddenly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Theme clothes=Attribute | |||
| 2 | forsake | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tear | participle | Babette's forsaken clothes not said here | by the thorns | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by thorn=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Babette | in Babette's agony; upwards property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in agony=Theme | ||||
| 5 | espy | past | Babette | Rudy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rudy=Stimulus |
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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