Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 106
“Travelling would be agreeable enough,” said he groaning, “if one only had no body, or could send it to rest while the spirit went on its pilgrimage unhindered, whither the voice within might call it.
Who acts: Travelling, heat, one, spirit, voice · What happens: be, say, groan, have, send, rest · To what, where: body, pilgrimage, spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travelling, heat, one, spirit), 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 | _ | 5 agreeable | punct |
| 2 | Travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreeable | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreeable | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreeable | cop |
| 5 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 agreeable | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreeable | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreeable | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 groaning | nsubj |
| 11 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 15 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 groaning | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 send | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 send | cc |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 send | aux |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 send | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rest | mark |
| 26 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 send | advcl |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 went | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spirit | det |
| 29 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rest | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 pilgrimage | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 33 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 34 | unhindered | unhinder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 went | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 call | punct |
| 36 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 call | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 voice | det |
| 38 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 call | nsubj |
| 39 | within | within | ADP | _ | 41 call | case |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 call | aux |
| 41 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 send | parataxis |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 call | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | Travelling | agreeable, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | groan | gerund | heat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | one | no body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 5 | send in a quote | could | body | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rest in a quote | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | go in a quote | past | the spirit | spirit's pilgrimage | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | unhinder in a quote | participle | the spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | call in a quote | might | the voice | spirit | whither property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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