Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 24
He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality--our own time--which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
Who acts: glass · What happens: think, endure, praise, be, incline · To what, where: distress, happy reality, bottom
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 (glass), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 distress | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 distress | det |
| 5 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 agony | cc |
| 7 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distress | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 endured | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 endured | aux |
| 10 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 distress | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 praised | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 praised | cc |
| 13 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 bottom | advmod |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 praised | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 reality | det |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reality | amod |
| 23 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 praised | obj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 time | punct |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 time | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 praised | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 deficiencies | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 deficiencies | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 deficiencies | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 deficiencies | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 deficiencies | det:predet |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 deficiencies | nmod:poss |
| 34 | deficiencies | deficiency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 time | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 better | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 better | cop |
| 37 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 better | advmod |
| 39 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 praised | parataxis |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 that | case |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 better | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 that | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 much | punct |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 much | advmod |
| 46 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 thought | advmod |
| 47 | against | against | ADP | _ | 49 inclination | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 inclination | nmod:poss |
| 49 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 much | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 been | punct |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 been | nsubj |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 been | aux |
| 53 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 54 been | advmod |
| 54 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | glass | of the distress and agony | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | endure | past · perfect | glass | the distress and agony not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distress=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | praise | participle | glass not said here | the happy reality | the bottom of glass's heart | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reality=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | present | than that; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | incline | glass | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: 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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