Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 8
Was he thinking, perchance, of his fair young wife?
Who acts: eldest · What happens: think
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perchance | punct |
| 5 | perchance | perchance | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thinking | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wife | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wife | amod |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perchance | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | eldest = eld | 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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