Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 25
I felt the weight of sleep upon my eyelids.
Who acts: I · What happens: feel · To what, where: weight, eyelids
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weight | det |
| 4 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weight | nmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 eyelids | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 felt | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | I | the weight of sleep | my eyelids | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent weight=Theme upon eyelid=Location |
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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