Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 63
For a moment, Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma underwent a sudden shock, and lessened considerably; but, dazzled by the light which surrounded Kaela, he soon found it quite natural that the old lady should have no eye for color.
Who acts: respect, Kaela, old lady, Alfred · What happens: undergo, lessen, dazzle, surround, find, have · To what, where: sudden shock, light, shock, eye · 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 (respect, Kaela, old lady, Alfred), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 underwent | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Alfred | case |
| 7 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 underwent | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mamma | case |
| 9 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mamma | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Kaela | case |
| 11 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | nmod |
| 12 | underwent | undergo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shock | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shock | amod |
| 15 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 underwent | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lessened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lessened | cc |
| 18 | lessened | lessen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 underwent | conj |
| 19 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 18 lessened | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dazzled | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 dazzled | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dazzled | punct |
| 23 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 underwent | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dazzled | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 light | acl |
| 29 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | nsubj |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 found | advmod |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dazzled | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | obj |
| 35 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 36 natural | advmod |
| 36 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 found | xcomp |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 have | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lady | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lady | amod |
| 40 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 natural | ccomp |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 eye | det |
| 44 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 color | case |
| 46 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 eye | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 underwent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undergo | past | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma | a sudden shock | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lessen | past | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma not said here | considerably property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dazzle | participle | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma not said here | by the light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | surround | participle · passive | Kaela | the light | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | respect | shock | natural, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 6 | have | should | the old lady | no eye | for color | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 7 | respect | Alfred | for Kaela's mamma | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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