Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 107
He distinctly saw the little girl, with her bright blue eyes, peeping out from behind the petals, and heard her whispering, "Here it is beautiful in spring, in summer, in autumn, and in winter," and hundreds of pictures passed through his mind.
Who acts: boy, whispering, girl · What happens: see, peep out, hear, be, pass, whisper · To what, where: little girl, whispering, pictures, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, whispering, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeping | punct |
| 14 | peeping | peep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 peeping | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 petals | case |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 petals | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 petals | det |
| 19 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 peeping | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 whispering | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whispering | whispering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 27 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | cop |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heard | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 spring | case |
| 32 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beautiful | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 summer | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 summer | case |
| 35 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 autumn | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 autumn | case |
| 38 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 winter | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 winter | cc |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 winter | case |
| 42 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 winter | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 winter | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hundreds | cc |
| 46 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 winter | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 pictures | case |
| 48 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 hundreds | nmod |
| 49 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 pictures | acl |
| 50 | through | through | ADP | _ | 52 mind | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 mind | nmod:poss |
| 52 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 passed | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | boy | the little girl | distinctly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | peep out | gerund | boy not said here | from the petals | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from petal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | girl's whispering | summer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whispering=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | whispering | here | spring | beautiful property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | pass | participle | pictures not said here | boy's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 6 | whisper | girl | nom whispering «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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