Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 8
He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul.
Who acts: Moon, great thoughts · What happens: see, look, sweep · To what, where: captive giant, Helena, soul
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, great thoughts), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 4 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 giant | amod |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Helena | case |
| 7 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Helena | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 giant | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 13 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rock | amod |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 ocean | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ocean | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ocean | amod |
| 18 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swept | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 swept | mark |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thoughts | amod |
| 22 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 swept | nsubj |
| 23 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 soul | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 soul | nmod:poss |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Moon | the captive giant | Helena St. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | Moon not said here | across the wide ocean; from the lonely rock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from rock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sweep | past | great thoughts | Moon's soul | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through soul=Trajectory |
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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