Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 133
And he leaned against the wall lost in reverie.
Who acts: Humpy Dumpy · What happens: learn, lose · To what, where: wall, reverie
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humpy Dumpy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 leaned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wall | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 reverie | case |
| 9 | reverie | reverie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Humpy Dumpy = dumpy | against the wall | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the wall not said here | reverie | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in reverie=Eventuality |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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