Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 41
She herself could not understand the feeling that swept through her, but I know that this minute, and the beautiful natural scene, will live within her memory for years, far more vividly and more truly than the painter could portray it with his colours on paper.
Who acts: last, feeling, I · What happens: not understand, sweep, know, live, portray · To what, where: feeling
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 (last, feeling, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 She | conj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feeling | det |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 swept | nsubj |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 minute | mark |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 minute | det |
| 18 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scene | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scene | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scene | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scene | amod |
| 23 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scene | amod |
| 24 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 minute | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 live | punct |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | aux |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 understand | conj |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 30 memory | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 memory | nmod:poss |
| 30 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 live | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 years | case |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 live | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 vividly | punct |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 more | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 vividly | advmod |
| 36 | vividly | vividly | ADV | _ | 27 live | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 portray | cc |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 truly | advmod |
| 39 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 44 portray | advmod |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 painter | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 painter | det |
| 42 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 portray | obl |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 portray | aux |
| 44 | portray | portray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 vividly | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 portray | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 colours | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 colours | nmod:poss |
| 48 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 portray | obl |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 paper | case |
| 50 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 colours | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | last | the feeling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | the feeling | through last | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | live | future | last not said here | year | within last's memory; vividly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | portray | could | last not said here | feeling | than the painter; with painter's colours on paper; truly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=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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