Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 115
They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was the real heart of the universe or planetary system, on which the genuine Cosmopolites, or citizens of the world, dwelt.
Who acts: Selenites, moon, genuine Cosmopolites · What happens: consider, inhabit, imagine, be, dwell · To what, where: moon, real heart
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 (Selenites, moon, genuine Cosmopolites), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 considered | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 inhabited | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 8 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 considered | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 imagined | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 imagined | nsubj |
| 11 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 considered | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heart | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heart | amod |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 imagined | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 universe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 universe | det |
| 19 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 system | cc |
| 21 | planetary | planetary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 system | compound |
| 22 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 universe | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dwelt | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 dwelt | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Cosmopolites | det |
| 27 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Cosmopolites | amod |
| 28 | Cosmopolites | Cosmopolite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 dwelt | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 citizens | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 citizens | cc |
| 31 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Cosmopolites | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 citizens | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cosmopolites | punct |
| 36 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 imagined | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Selenites = selenite | the moon | alone property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent moon=Attribute | |||
| 2 | inhabit | to-infinitive · passive | Selenites = selenite not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | imagine | past | Selenites = selenite | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | moon | the real heart | of the universe or planetary system | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dwell | past | the genuine Cosmopolites | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
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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