Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 71
A sudden flash of thought, like a ray of mercy, recalled her dream of the preceding night; all was vividly represented before her.
Who acts: sudden flash, thought, happiness · What happens: recall, precede, represent, flash, ray, dream · To what, where: dream, all, mercy, preceding night
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 (sudden flash, thought, happiness), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flash | amod |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recalled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thought | case |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ray | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 ray | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ray | det |
| 9 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ray | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flash | punct |
| 13 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dream | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recalled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 18 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 night | amod |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dream | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 represented | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 represented | aux:pass |
| 23 | vividly | vividly | ADV | _ | 24 represented | advmod |
| 24 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 recalled | parataxis |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 represented | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 recalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | past | a sudden flash of thought | happiness's dream of the preceding night | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | represent | past · passive | all | before happiness | vividly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | flash | thought | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | ray | mercy | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | dream | happiness | the preceding night | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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