Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 30
The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone.
Who acts: light · What happens: incline, ring, deliver, be, not like, disturb · To what, where: worthy man, galoshes, house, other people, beds, matter
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 (light), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inclined | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inclined | aux:pass |
| 5 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ring | mark |
| 7 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 inclined | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 deliver | cc |
| 9 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ring | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deliver | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deliver | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 deliver | advcl |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 light | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 inclined | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 like | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 like | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 like | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 like | advmod |
| 29 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 inclined | conj |
| 30 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 like | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 disturbing | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 beds | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 beds | nmod:poss |
| 36 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 disturbing | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 left | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 left | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 considerately | advmod |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 considerately | advmod |
| 41 | considerately | considerately | ADV | _ | 43 left | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 left | nsubj |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inclined | parataxis |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 matter | det |
| 45 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 left | obj |
| 46 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 43 left | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | past · passive | the worthy man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ring | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | deliver | infinitive | galoshes = galosh | the house | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a light in the window | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not like | past · do-support | light | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | disturb not said to happen | gerund | light not said here | the other people | galoshes's beds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | leave | past | light | the matter | alone, considerately property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |
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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