Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 217
The old thoughts and dreams of a bachelor's nightcap still remain.
Who acts: old thoughts · What happens: remain, think · To what, where: nightcap
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 (old thoughts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thoughts | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thoughts | amod |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dreams | cc |
| 5 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thoughts | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nightcap | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bachelor | det |
| 8 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nightcap | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 bachelor | case |
| 10 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thoughts | nmod |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 remain | advmod |
| 12 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | the old thoughts of a bachelor's nightcap and dreams | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think | a bachelor's nightcap | nom thought «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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