Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 23
The spell was broken; a cry of terror escaped her, and she awoke.
Who acts: cry, Babette, terror · What happens: break, escape, awake, cry · To what, where: spell, Babette
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 (cry, Babette, terror), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spell | det |
| 2 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 escaped | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 escaped | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cry | nmod |
| 10 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 escaped | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 awoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 awoke | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 escaped | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | escape | past | a cry of terror | Babette | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | Babette | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry | terror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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