Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 3
“Merciful God, where am I!” exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpowering dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force.
Who acts: Merciful God, Hostess, ideas · What happens: be, exclaim, think, overpower, struggle, encompass · To what, where: Hostess, agony, dizziness · 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 (Merciful God, Hostess, ideas), 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 | _ | 3 God | punct |
| 2 | Merciful | Merciful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 God | compound |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 where | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 God | conj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 where | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 God | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 God | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 agony | case |
| 13 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 thought | advmod |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ideas | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 ideas | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feelings | cc |
| 25 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ideas | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 overpowering | mark |
| 27 | overpowering | overpower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ideas | acl |
| 28 | dizziness | dizziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 overpowering | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 struggled | punct |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 struggled | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 struggled | nsubj |
| 33 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 power | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 power | det |
| 36 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 power | amod |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 struggled | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 desperation | case |
| 39 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 power | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 encompassed | punct |
| 41 | encompassed | encompass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 struggled | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 encompassed | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 force | case |
| 44 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 force | amod |
| 45 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 encompassed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Merciful God = god | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Merciful God | Hostess | agony | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Hostess | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | overpower | gerund | Hostess's ideas and feelings not said here | dizziness | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | struggle | past | Hostess | with the utmost power of desperation | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with power=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | encompass | past | Hostess not said here | Hostess | with renewed force | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 7 | renew | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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