Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 85
It was the heart of a young military man; a man, as people said, of talent and feeling.
Who acts: portrait, people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: heart, talent · 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 (portrait, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 talent | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 talent | case |
| 19 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feeling | cc |
| 21 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talent | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | portrait | the heart and a man | of a young military man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | talent and feeling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent talent=Topic |
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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