Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 69
His thoughts were so elastic, his heart so tender; and involuntarily he picked one of the nearest flowers.
Who acts: thoughts, Clerk · What happens: be, pick, think · To what, where: one
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 (thoughts, Clerk), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 elastic | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 elastic | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 elastic | advmod |
| 5 | elastic | elastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elastic | appos |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 tender | case |
| 10 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 picked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 picked | cc |
| 13 | involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 15 picked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 picked | nsubj |
| 15 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 elastic | parataxis |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 picked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flowers | det |
| 19 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 elastic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Clerk's thoughts | elastic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick | past | Clerk | one of the nearest flowers | involuntarily property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 3 | think | Clerk | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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