Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 85

It was a glorious prospect; but the stomach was empty, the body tired; all that the heart cared and longed for was good night-quarters; yet how would they be?

Who acts: freezing, stomach, heart, quarters · What happens: be, care, long · To what, where: glorious prospect

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 (freezing, stomach, heart, quarters), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prospect	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prospect	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prospect	det
4	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prospect	amod
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 empty	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stomach	det
9	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 empty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 empty	cop
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prospect	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 body	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 body	det
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 empty	conj
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cared	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 cared	det:predet
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cared	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cared	nsubj
21	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prospect	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 longed	cc
23	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cared	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	29 quarters	case
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 quarters	cop
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quarters	amod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 quarters	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
29	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 longed	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 be	punct
31	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	35 be	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 be	advmod
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 be	nsubj
35	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prospect	conj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prospect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	freezing	a glorious prospect		tree rules
2	is	past	the stomach		empty property	tree rules
3	care	past	the heart			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	long	past	the heart not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past			for good night quarters	tree rules
6	be	would	quarters = quarter			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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