Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 82
Towards midnight, she awoke; before her stood the dead horse, prancing and full of life, which shone forth from his eyes and from his wounded neck.
Who acts: recollection · What happens: awake, stand, shine · To what, where: dead horse, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection), 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 | Towards | towards | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prancing | punct |
| 14 | prancing | prancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shone | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 shone | nsubj |
| 21 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | conj |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 shone | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shone | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 neck | cc |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 neck | amod |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eyes | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | recollection | midnight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | recollection | the dead horse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | head's eyes and head's wounded neck | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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