Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 16
She paused for a moment--of what might she be thinking?
Who acts: beam · What happens: pause, think
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinking | punct |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 thinking | obj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinking | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thinking | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thinking | aux |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 paused | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | beam | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | might · progressive | beam | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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: «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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