Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 145
At times he would think in this way; yet again and again the songs would sound in his soul, and his heart become gentle and pious.
Who acts: echo, songs, heart · What happens: think, sound, become · To what, where: way, soul
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 (echo, songs, heart), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 think | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 again | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 sound | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 again | cc |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 again | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 songs | det |
| 15 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sound | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sound | aux |
| 17 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 soul | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 soul | nmod:poss |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 become | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 become | nsubj |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sound | conj |
| 26 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pious | cc |
| 28 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gentle | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | echo | this way | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sound | would | the songs | echo's soul | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | |||
| 3 | become | present | echo's heart | gentle property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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