Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 59
But her gaze was not on the bridegroom, with his manly, sunburnt face, round which curled a black beard, and whose dark fiery eyes were fixed upon her; but away from him, at a twinkling star, that shone down upon her from the sky.
Who acts: gaze, round, that, bridegroom · What happens: not be, curl, fix, shine down, gaze · To what, where: black beard, dark fiery eyes, sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaze, round, that, bridegroom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 bridegroom | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridegroom | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bridegroom | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bridegroom | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bridegroom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridegroom | det |
| 8 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 face | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 manly | punct |
| 14 | sunburnt | sunburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridegroom | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 round | punct |
| 17 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | conj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 curled | nsubj |
| 19 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 round | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 beard | det |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beard | amod |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 curled | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fixed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fixed | cc |
| 25 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyes | amod |
| 27 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyes | amod |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fixed | aux:pass |
| 30 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 face | acl |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fixed | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 away | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 away | cc |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 bridegroom | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 away | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 star | punct |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 star | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 star | det |
| 41 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 star | compound |
| 42 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridegroom | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 shone | punct |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 shone | nsubj |
| 45 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 star | conj |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 45 shone | advmod |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 shone | obl |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 sky | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 sky | det |
| 51 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shone | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridegroom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | bridegroom's gaze | on the bridegroom and prince's manly sunburnt face and round; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curl | past | round | a black beard | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fix | past · passive | dark fiery eyes | upon bridegroom | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shine down | past | that | the sky | upon bridegroom; down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | |||
| 5 | gaze | bridegroom | nom gaze «act intransitive»: 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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