Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 106
The Councillor supported his head on his hand, drew a long breath, and thought over all the wondrous things he saw around him.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: support, draw, think over, see · To what, where: head, hand, long breath, wondrous things
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor), 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 | 2 Councillor | det |
| 2 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 supported | nsubj |
| 3 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supported | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supported | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supported | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 breath | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 breath | amod |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supported | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 all | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 things | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 things | det |
| 20 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past | the Councillor | Councillor's head | Councillor's hand | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | draw | past | the Councillor not said here | a long breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think over speech: other | past | the Councillor not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Councillor | all wondrous things not said here | around connection | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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