Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 126
“I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.”
Who acts: Tales, commonplace · What happens: mean, twist, writhe, expect, find · To what, where: new fangled novels, novels, dust, commonplace, reading public
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 (Tales, commonplace), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 novels | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 novels | amod |
| 6 | fangled | fangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 novels | amod |
| 7 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mean | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twisting | punct |
| 9 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mean | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 writhing | cc |
| 11 | writhing | writhe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 twisting | conj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 writhing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dust | det |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 writhing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 commonplace | case |
| 17 | commonplace | commonplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dust | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 expect | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 expect | obj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 expect | advmod |
| 21 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 commonplace | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 expect | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 public | det |
| 25 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 public | compound |
| 26 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | Tales of day Life = tale | that new fangled novels | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Topic | ||||
| 2 | twist in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | writhe in a quote | gerund | novels = novel | the dust of commonplace | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect in a quote | present | commonplace | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | commonplace not said here | a reading public | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent public=Topic |
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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