Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 56

“These police-reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time-worn banks of official duties”; he said to himself consolingly, while his eye ran over the first page.

Who acts: overflowing, eye · What happens: say, run · To what, where: overflowing, first page · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overflowing, eye), 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	_	8 stem	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stem	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 police	punct
5	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 police	conj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stem	aux
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stem	advmod
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 torrent	det
10	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stem	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ideas	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ideas	nmod:poss
13	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 torrent	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hinder	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hinder	cc
16	effectually	effectually	ADV	_	17 hinder	advmod
17	hinder	hind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 stem	parataxis
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 overflowing	det
19	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 overflowing	amod
20	overflowing	overflowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hinder	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 banks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 banks	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 worn	obl:unmarked
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
25	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 banks	amod
26	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 overflowing	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 duties	case
28	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 duties	amod
29	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 banks	nmod
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 hinder	punct
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stem	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 himself	case
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 said	obl
36	consolingly	consolingly	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ran	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 ran	mark
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eye	nmod:poss
40	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ran	nsubj
41	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
42	over	over	ADP	_	45 page	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 page	det
44	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 page	amod
45	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ran	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	overflowing		overflowing			consolingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	run	past	overflowing's eye			the first page			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over page=Trajectory

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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