Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 117
Something of this kind Anthony felt when Molly talked to him of old times.
Who acts: Something, Molly · What happens: feel, talk · To what, where: Anthony
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, Molly), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kind | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Something | nmod |
| 5 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 talked | advmod |
| 8 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 talked | nsubj |
| 9 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 talked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 times | case |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 times | amod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Something | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | talk | past | Molly | Anthony | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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