Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 25
Her graceful limbs appeared to move; dolphins sprang at her feet, and immortality shone from her eyes.
Who acts: graceful limbs, dolphins, immortality · What happens: appear, move, spring, shine · To what, where: feet, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (graceful limbs, dolphins, immortality), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 limbs | amod |
| 3 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 move | mark |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appeared | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
| 8 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | parataxis |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sprang | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shone | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shone | cc |
| 15 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | nsubj |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shone | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | woman's graceful limbs | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | woman's graceful limbs not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spring | past | dolphins | woman's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | immortality | woman's eyes | 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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