Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 161
That was a sinful thought, and he offered a prayer to drive it away.
Who acts: That, castle · What happens: be, offer, drive away · To what, where: sinful thought, prayer
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 (That, castle), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 4 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 offered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offered | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offered | nsubj |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prayer | det |
| 11 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drive | mark |
| 13 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 offered | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drive | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 drive | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a sinful thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | castle | a prayer | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive away | to-infinitive | castle not said here | prayer | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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