Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 3
Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve. Airy and etherial as a vision, and yet sharply defined amid the surrounding shadows, stood this daughter of Hindostan: I could read on her delicate brow the thought that had brought her hither.
Who acts: I · What happens: trip, define, stand, read, bring · To what, where: Hindoo maid, thicket, amid, daughter, thought, delicate brow
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 tripped | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 thicket | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thicket | det |
| 4 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tripped | obl |
| 5 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maid | det |
| 7 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | compound |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tripped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gazelle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gazelle | det |
| 13 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tripped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gazelle | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 Eve. | case |
| 17 | Eve. | Eve. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | Airy | Airy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Eve. | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 etherial | cc |
| 20 | etherial | etherial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beautiful | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 vision | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 vision | det |
| 23 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 etherial | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 defined | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 defined | cc |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 defined | advmod |
| 27 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 28 defined | advmod |
| 28 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tripped | conj |
| 29 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 defined | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shadows | det |
| 31 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shadows | compound |
| 32 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 defined | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stood | punct |
| 34 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tripped | conj |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 daughter | det |
| 36 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Hindostan | case |
| 38 | Hindostan | Hindostan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 daughter | nmod |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 read | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 read | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 read | aux |
| 42 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 stood | advcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 brow | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 brow | nmod:poss |
| 45 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 brow | amod |
| 46 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 read | obl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 thought | det |
| 48 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 read | obl |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 brought | aux |
| 51 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 thought | acl:relcl |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 hither | nmod:poss |
| 53 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 51 brought | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | past | a Hindoo maid and light | the thicket | as a gazelle; forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent maid=Theme from thicket=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | define | participle | amid | yet | sharply property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand | past | this daughter of Hindostan | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | read | could | I | the thought | Hindostan's delicate brow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the thought | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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