Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 2
“What's the matter?” asked the Hostess, plucking the Councillor by the sleeve; and now his recollection returned, for in the course of the conversation he had entirely forgotten all that had preceded it.
Who acts: matter, Hostess, recollection, Diana · What happens: be, ask, pluck, return, forget, precede · To what, where: Councillor, conversation, that · 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 (matter, Hostess, recollection, Diana), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 asked | obj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hostess | det |
| 10 | Hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plucking | punct |
| 12 | plucking | pluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Councillor | det |
| 14 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plucking | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sleeve | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sleeve | det |
| 17 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plucking | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 returned | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 returned | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 recollection | nmod:poss |
| 22 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 course | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 course | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 course | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 course | det |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 conversation | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 conversation | det |
| 31 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 course | nmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forgotten | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 forgotten | aux |
| 34 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 35 forgotten | advmod |
| 35 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 conversation | acl:relcl |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 preceded | det:predet |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 preceded | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 preceded | aux |
| 39 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 forgotten | ccomp |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 preceded | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Hostess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pluck | gerund | the Hostess not said here | the Councillor | by the sleeve | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Patient | |||
| 4 | return | past | Diana's recollection | now | for the course of the conversation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | forget | past · perfect | recollection | the conversation not said here | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | precede | past · perfect · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | recollect | Diana | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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