Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 69
Every dream proclaimed that one or the other of these valuables was lost; wherefore he started up as in a fever; and the first movement which his hand made, described a magic triangle from the right pocket to the left, and then up towards the bosom, to feel if he had them all safe or not.
Who acts: dream, hand, magazine · What happens: proclaim, lose, start up, make up, describe, feel · To what, where: one, first movement, magic triangle, right pocket, valuables
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 (dream, hand, magazine), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 dream | det |
| 2 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 other | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 valuables | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 valuables | det |
| 11 | valuables | valuable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 other | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 proclaimed | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 15 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 started | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proclaimed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 started | compound:prt |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 fever | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fever | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fever | det |
| 22 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 started | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 movement | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 movement | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 movement | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 movement | amod |
| 27 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proclaimed | parataxis |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 made | obj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 movement | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 described | punct |
| 33 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 triangle | det |
| 35 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 triangle | compound |
| 36 | triangle | triangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 described | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 pocket | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pocket | det |
| 39 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pocket | amod |
| 40 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 triangle | nmod | ||
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 left | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 left | det |
| 43 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pocket | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 up | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 up | cc |
| 46 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 up | advmod |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 made | compound:prt |
| 48 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 50 bosom | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 bosom | det |
| 50 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 feel | punct |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 feel | mark |
| 53 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | conj |
| 54 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 56 had | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 had | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 feel | ccomp |
| 57 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 had | obj |
| 58 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 59 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 had | xcomp |
| 60 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 61 not | cc |
| 61 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 59 safe | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past | every dream | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | one | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | start up | past | dream | as a fever; wherefore property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make up | past | magazine's hand | the first movement | towards the bosom | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Pivot | |||
| 5 | describe | past | magazine's hand not said here | a magic triangle | the right pocket to the left | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme | |||
| 6 | feel | to-infinitive | magazine's hand not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | magazine | valuables = valuable | safe property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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