Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 266
The learned man heard nothing of all this--for they had deprived him of life.
Who acts: learned man, soldiers · What happens: learn, hear, deprive · To what, where: nothing, man
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, soldiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 this | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 deprived | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 deprived | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 deprived | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 deprived | aux |
| 13 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 deprived | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deprived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | the learned man | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | deprive | past · perfect | soldiers = soldier | man | of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of life=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: «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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