Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 190
He felt the fresh air, the first sunbeam--and now he was out in the courtyard.
Who acts: life · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: fresh air, courtyard
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 (life), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 air | amod |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunbeam | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunbeam | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sunbeam | amod |
| 9 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 out | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 out | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 out | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 out | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 out | cop |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 out | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | life | the fresh air and the first sunbeam | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | life | the courtyard | now | out property | tree rules |
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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