Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 84
Such gravity, such stern justice, such a piercing glance shone from his large, gentle eyes, that it seemed to penetrate into every corner of her heart.
Who acts: Such gravity, it · What happens: shine, seem, penetrate · To what, where: large gentle eyes, corner
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 (Such gravity, it), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gravity | amod |
| 2 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 justice | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 justice | amod |
| 5 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 justice | amod |
| 6 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gravity | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gravity | punct |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 glance | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 glance | det |
| 10 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glance | compound |
| 11 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 large | punct |
| 17 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seemed | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 seemed | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shone | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 penetrate | mark |
| 24 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 corner | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 corner | det |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 penetrate | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 heart | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 corner | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | Such gravity and such stern justice | glance's large gentle eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | penetrate | to-infinitive | every corner of recollection's heart | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=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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