Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 67
The first heart through which he came, was that of a middle-aged lady, but he instantly fancied himself in the room of the “Institution for the cure of the crooked and deformed,” where casts of mis-shapen limbs are displayed in naked reality on the wall.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, be, fancy, deform, display · To what, where: first heart, man, room, naked reality
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heart | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lady | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lady | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 lady | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lady | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lady | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 aged | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 middle | punct |
| 15 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fancied | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fancied | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fancied | nsubj |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 fancied | advmod |
| 21 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 fancied | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fancied | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Institution | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Institution | det |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Institution | punct |
| 29 | Institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 cure | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cure | det |
| 32 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Institution | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 crooked | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crooked | det |
| 35 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cure | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 deformed | cc |
| 37 | deformed | deform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 displayed | advmod |
| 41 | casts | cast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 limbs | case |
| 43 | mis | mis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shapen | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 mis | punct |
| 45 | shapen | shapen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 limbs | compound |
| 46 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 casts | nmod |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 displayed | aux:pass |
| 48 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 reality | case |
| 50 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 reality | amod |
| 51 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 displayed | obl |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 wall | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wall | det |
| 54 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 reality | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | the first heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man not said here | of a aged lady | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fancy | past | man | man | the room of the Institution for the cure of the crooked | instantly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | deform in a quote | past | man not said here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | display | present · passive | the first heart | naked reality on the wall | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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