Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 35
No; he saunters up and down his room, because, probably, he has enjoyed too many of the good things of this world at his dinner.
Who acts: lieutenant · What happens: saunter up, enjoy · To what, where: many, dinner
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 (lieutenant), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 saunters | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 saunters | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saunters | nsubj |
| 4 | saunters | saunter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 saunters | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 room | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saunters | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enjoyed | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 enjoyed | mark |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 because | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 17 enjoyed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 probably | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 enjoyed | aux |
| 17 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saunters | advcl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 enjoyed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 many | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 things | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 dinner | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoyed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saunters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saunter up | present | lieutenant | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | present · perfect | lieutenant | many of the good things of this world | lieutenant's dinner | probably property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
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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