Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 16
Anon I thought of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha, so deep was the expression of pain.
Who acts: Anon · What happens: think, be · To what, where: deep expression · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anon), 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 | Anon | Anon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 6 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | compound |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 cross | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cross | det |
| 10 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Golgotha | case |
| 12 | Golgotha | Golgotha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deep | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 deep | advmod |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 expression | amod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 expression | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 expression | det |
| 18 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expression | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Anon | of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the deep expression | of pain | tree rules |
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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