Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 3
One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them, for my eye loves best to rest upon one point.
Who acts: One carriage, I, eye · What happens: roll, not follow, love, rest · To what, where: forest, sea, best, one point
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 (One carriage, I, eye), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 carriage | nummod |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolls | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 another | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 carriage | nmod |
| 5 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rolls | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 follow | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 follow | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 follow | advmod |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rolls | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loves | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 loves | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loves | nsubj |
| 19 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | conj |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 loves | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rest | mark |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 loves | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 point | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 point | nummod |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rest | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | One carriage after another | forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not follow | past · do-support | I | sea | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | present | my eye | best | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | my eye not said here | one point | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon point=Location |
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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