Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 62
He placed a pencil sketch on the table; and mamma, who had been over-powered with the appearance of the colored plates, threw a glance at the pale drawing and cried in astonishment, "What, did you see it throw up white fire?"
Who acts: sketch, you, glance · What happens: place, over-power, throw, cry, see, throw up · To what, where: pencil sketch, table, mamma, glance, pale drawing, astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sketch, you, glance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sketch | det |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sketch | compound |
| 5 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sketch | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 mamma | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mamma | cc |
| 11 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 over-powered | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 over-powered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 over-powered | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 over-powered | aux:pass |
| 16 | over-powered | over-power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mamma | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 appearance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 appearance | det |
| 19 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 over-powered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 plates | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plates | det |
| 22 | colored | colored | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plates | compound |
| 23 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 appearance | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 threw | punct |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 glance | det |
| 27 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 drawing | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drawing | det |
| 30 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 drawing | amod |
| 31 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cried | cc |
| 33 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 astonishment | case |
| 35 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cried | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 38 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 see | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 What | punct |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | aux |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 see | nsubj |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 cried | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 see | obj |
| 44 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 see | xcomp |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 throw | compound:prt |
| 46 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fire | amod |
| 47 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 throw | obj |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | sketch | a pencil sketch | the table | mamma obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sketch=Theme on table=Destination | ||
| 2 | over-power | past · perfect · passive | mamma | with the appearance of the colored plates | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | sketch not said here | a glance | the pale drawing | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at drawing=Destination | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | sketch not said here | astonishment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in astonishment=Location | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | glance | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | throw up in a quote | infinitive | glance not said here | white fire | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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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