Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 66
And behold! to the Shoes of Fortune this was the cue; the whole man shrunk together and a most uncommon journey through the hearts of the front row of spectators, now began.
Who acts: this, whole man · What happens: be, shrink, begin · To what, where: cue, whole man
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 (this, whole 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cue | cc |
| 2 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 12 cue | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 behold | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Shoes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Shoes | det |
| 6 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cue | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fortune | case |
| 8 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Shoes | nmod |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 cue | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cue | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cue | det |
| 12 | cue | cue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cue | appos |
| 17 | shrunk | shrink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 shrunk | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 journey | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 uncommon | advmod |
| 22 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 journey | amod |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 hearts | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hearts | det |
| 26 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 man | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 row | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 row | det |
| 29 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 row | amod |
| 30 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hearts | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 spectators | case |
| 32 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 row | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 began | punct |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 began | advmod |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the cue | to the Shoes of Fortune | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shrink | participle | the whole man through the hearts of the front row of spectators and a uncommon journey not said here | together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the whole man through the hearts of the front row of spectators and a uncommon journey not said here | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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