Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 18
No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinful as thoughts born of young hearts, sinful here in the temple, in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods.
Who acts: thoughts, homes, occupation · What happens: not fly, be, bear, think · To what, where: temple, thoughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, homes, occupation), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 fly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fly | advmod |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fly | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sinful | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sinful | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 sinful | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sinful | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sinful | cop |
| 15 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fly | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sinful | punct |
| 17 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sinful | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 thoughts | case |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sinful | obl |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thoughts | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hearts | case |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hearts | amod |
| 23 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 born | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sinful | punct |
| 25 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sinful | conj |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 fly | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 temple | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 temple | det |
| 29 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 presence | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 presence | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 presence | det |
| 33 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Fo | case |
| 35 | Fo | Fo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 presence | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gods | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gods | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gods | amod |
| 39 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gods | amod |
| 40 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Fo | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | past · do-support | occupation's thoughts | the temple; here | in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods; far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | homes = home | yet | sinful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | homes = home not said here | as thoughts | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bear | participle | thoughts not said here | of young hearts | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | think | occupation | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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