Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 83
“This is certainly the heart of an old maid,” thought he.
Who acts: This, heart · What happens: be, think · To what, where: heart, maid · Speech: someone speaks here
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, heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heart | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heart | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 heart | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 maid | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maid | amod |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the heart | of a old maid; certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the heart | maid | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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