Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 70
With the snake-like writhings of an idea he glided into another female heart; but this seemed to him like a large holy fane.
Who acts: difference, this · What happens: glide, seem · To what, where: female heart, difference
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 (difference, this), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 6 writhings | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 writhings | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 writhings | amod |
| 6 | writhings | writhing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glided | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 idea | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 glided | nsubj |
| 11 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 glided | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seemed | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 fane | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fane | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fane | amod |
| 25 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fane | amod |
| 26 | fane | fane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | difference | another female heart | with the like writhings; of a idea | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme of idea=Source into heart=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seem | past | this | difference | like a large holy fane | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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