Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 11
Near her in the grass lay a speckled snake, but she heeded it not--she thought only of Bramah and of her betrothed. '
Who acts: flame · What happens: lie, speckle, not heed, think, betroth · To what, where: speckled snake, grass, snake, Bramah
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flame), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snake | det |
| 8 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 snake | amod |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heeded | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heeded | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heeded | nsubj |
| 13 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heeded | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 heeded | advmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | advcl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 Bramah | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Bramah | case |
| 21 | Bramah | Bramah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 betrothed | cc |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 betrothed | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 betrothed | nmod:poss |
| 25 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Bramah | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bramah | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bramah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a speckled snake | the grass | near flame | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speckle | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not heed | past | flame | snake | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | flame | Bramah | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bramah=Theme | ||||
| 5 | betroth | participle | flame not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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