Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 190

Now and then he felt slight sensations of hunger and thirst; but no one came to him, no one tended him.

Who acts: weather, one · What happens: feel, come, tend, sense · To what, where: slight sensations, weather, hunger

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 (weather, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 felt	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 then	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 felt	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sensations	amod
7	sensations	sensation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 felt	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hunger	case
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sensations	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thirst	cc
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunger	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tended	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tended	nsubj
22	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tended	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	feel	past	weather	slight sensations of hunger and thirst		now; then	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme
2	come	past	no one		weather		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	tend	past	no one	weather			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	sense			hunger and thirst			nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=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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