Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 53
What has taken possession of the Bishop?” sighed the Councillor, shaking his head.
Who acts: possession · What happens: take, sigh, shake, possess · To what, where: Councillor, head, Bishop
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 (possession), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sighed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bishop | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bishop | det |
| 7 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 possession | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bishop | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bishop | punct |
| 10 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Councillor | det |
| 12 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sighed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shaking | punct |
| 14 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sighed | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shaking | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sigh in a quote | past | possession of the Bishop | the Councillor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | gerund | possession of the Bishop not said here | Bishop's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | possess | the Bishop | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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