Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 19
There's youth and spirit in the blood here! thought I; and, indeed, they looked with a smile at the moss-grown hill and thick forest. '
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, think, look, grow · To what, where: blood, I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spirit | cc |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 youth | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blood | det |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | obl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 's | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | parataxis |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 looked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 smile | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 smile | det |
| 22 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 hill | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hill | det |
| 25 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grown | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 moss | punct |
| 27 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hill | amod |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 forest | cc |
| 30 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forest | amod |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hill | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | youth and spirit | the blood; here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blood=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | youth | with a smile; at the grown hill and thick forest; indeed property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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