Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 50
What power seemed to lie in the depths of those dark eyes!
Who acts: power · What happens: seem, lie · To what, where: depths
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 power | det |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lie | mark |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 depths | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 depths | det |
| 8 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lie | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 eyes | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 depths | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | what power | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lie | to-infinitive | what power not said here | the depths of that dark eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in depth=Location |
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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