Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 116
What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads!
Who acts: Selenites · What happens: take · To what, where: strange things, heads
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), 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 | 4 men | nsubj |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | compound |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 no | punct |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 men | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 no | parataxis |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 what | nsubj |
| 11 | Selenites | selenite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Selenites | strange things not said here | Selenites's heads | sometimes property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme into head=Destination |
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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