Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 8
I rejoiced at her happiness, and sought her on calm quiet evenings--ah, nobody thinks of my clear eye and my silent glance!
Who acts: I, nobody, my · What happens: rejoice, seek, think, glance · To what, where: happiness, daughter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third 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, nobody, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 2 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 happiness | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rejoiced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sought | cc |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rejoiced | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sought | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 evenings | case |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 evenings | amod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 evenings | amod |
| 13 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 15 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 18 thinks | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ah | punct |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 thinks | nsubj |
| 18 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rejoiced | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eye | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eye | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eye | amod |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinks | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glance | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 glance | nmod:poss |
| 25 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 glance | amod |
| 26 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eye | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | I | daughter's happiness | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | I not said here | daughter | evening | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | nobody | of my clear eye and my silent glance | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glance | my | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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