Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 33
The silence which reigned here expressed a world of grief.
Who acts: silence · What happens: reign, express · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 silence | det |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expressed | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 reigned | nsubj |
| 4 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 silence | acl:relcl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 reigned | advmod |
| 6 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expressed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 world | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | the silence | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | participle | the silence | a world of grief | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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