Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 82
He then imagined he had got into a needle-case full of pointed needles of every size.
Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: imagine, get · To what, where: needle case
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 (Hereupon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 imagined | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 imagined | advmod |
| 3 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 imagined | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 case | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 case | det |
| 9 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 case | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 needle | punct |
| 11 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 case | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 needles | case |
| 14 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 needles | amod |
| 15 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 size | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 size | det |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needles | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | Hereupon | then | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Hereupon | a needle case | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into case=Destination |
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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