Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 87
He observed it perfectly, and laughed in his heart.
Who acts: botanist · What happens: observe, laugh · To what, where: coat
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 (botanist), 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 | 2 observed | nsubj |
| 2 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 observed | obj |
| 4 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 2 observed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laughed | cc |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 observed | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | botanist | coat | perfectly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | botanist not said here | in botanist's heart | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heart=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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