Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 13
And from the mountains the echo came back upon her, 'he lives!"
Who acts: echo · What happens: come back, live · To what, where: mountains
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 (echo), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 mountains | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountains | det |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 echo | det |
| 6 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lives | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 lives | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lives | nsubj |
| 14 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 lives | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the echo | the mountains | upon flame | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | live | present | echo | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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