Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 31
His first feeling was of anger; his next that his temper fell to zero.
Who acts: first feeling, temper, One · What happens: be, fall, temper
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 (first feeling, temper, One), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 feeling | amod |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anger | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 anger | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 anger | case |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 next | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 next | nmod:poss |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anger | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fell | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 temper | nmod:poss |
| 12 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 next | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 zero | case |
| 15 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 anger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One's first feeling | of anger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | One's first feeling not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | One's temper | to zero | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to zero=Theme | ||||
| 4 | temper | One | nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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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