Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 26
I am much too stout,” groaned he aloud, while fixed as in a vice.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, groan, fix · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stout | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stout | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 stout | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 stout | advmod |
| 5 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stout | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stout | punct |
| 8 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stout | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 groaned | obj |
| 10 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 8 groaned | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fixed | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 fixed | mark |
| 13 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stout | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 vice | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 vice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vice | det |
| 17 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | stout property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | groan in a quote | past | man | aloud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fix in a quote | participle | man not said here | as a vice | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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