Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 8
The flame flickered to and fro, and seemed ready to expire; but still the lamp burned on, and the girl's black sparkling eyes, half veiled behind their long silken lashes, followed it with a gaze of earnest intensity.
Who acts: flame, lamp, earnest intensity · What happens: flicker, fro, seem, expire, burn on, veil · To what, where: black sparkling eyes, long silken lashes, lamp
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, lamp, earnest intensity), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flame | det |
| 2 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flickered | nsubj |
| 3 | flickered | flicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 flickered | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fro | cc |
| 6 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flickered | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flickered | parataxis |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 expire | mark |
| 12 | expire | expire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 burned | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 burned | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 burned | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lamp | det |
| 17 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burned | nsubj |
| 18 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flickered | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 burned | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 veiled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 veiled | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 girl | case |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 26 | sparkling | sparkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | compound |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 veiled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 veiled | punct |
| 29 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 30 veiled | advmod |
| 30 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 burned | conj |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 35 lashes | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lashes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lashes | amod |
| 34 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lashes | amod |
| 35 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 veiled | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 followed | punct |
| 37 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flickered | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 followed | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 gaze | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 gaze | det |
| 41 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 followed | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 intensity | case |
| 43 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 intensity | amod |
| 44 | intensity | intensity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gaze | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flickered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flicker | past | the flame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | the flame not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | ready property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | expire | to-infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | burn on | participle | the lamp | still | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | veil | participle · passive | the girl's black sparkling eyes | eyes's long silken lashes | half property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||
| 7 | follow | past | lamp | with a gaze of earnest intensity | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | gaze | earnest intensity | nom gaze «act intransitive»: of=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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