Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 23
He had known the nun right well, and he thought of her, and his heart beat quicker as he thought.
Who acts: monk, heart · What happens: know, think, beat · To what, where: monk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, heart), 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 | 3 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nun | det |
| 5 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 known | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beat | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beat | nsubj |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 19 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beat | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 thought | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beat | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect · passive | monk | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | monk | of light | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat | past | monk's heart | quick property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | monk | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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