Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 33
His engaged ring came into his mind; but this was larger, and spread into a glittering circle, in which appeared a clear glacier.
Who acts: engaged ring, this, Rudy · What happens: come, be, spread, glitter, appear, mind · To what, where: mind, glittering circle, clear glacier
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (engaged ring, this, 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 | 3 ring | nmod:poss |
| 2 | engaged | engaged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 larger | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 larger | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 larger | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 larger | cop |
| 12 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spread | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spread | cc |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 circle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 circle | det |
| 18 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 circle | amod |
| 19 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spread | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 glacier | det |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 glacier | amod |
| 26 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Rudy's engaged ring | Rudy's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | a glittering circle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into circle=Destination | |||||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | appear | past | a clear glacier | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glacier=Theme | |||||
| 6 | mind | Rudy | nom mind «cognition 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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