Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 103
He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call “men”; yet they looked different to us.
Who acts: earth, beings, we, quantity · What happens: perceive, be, call, look · To what, where: quantity, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, beings, we, quantity), 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 perceived | nsubj |
| 2 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 perceived | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 quantity | det |
| 5 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perceived | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beings | case |
| 7 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quantity | conj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 what | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | cop |
| 10 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 what | advmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 beings | parataxis |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 call | nsubj |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | obj |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 perceived | conj |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looked | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 different | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | earth | a quantity and beings | immediately property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer quantity=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | beings | a quantity and beings | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | present | we | men | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | look | past | quantity | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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