Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 34
Old Anthony seldom spoke of this place, but he thought of it all the more.
Who acts: Old Anthony, Anthony · What happens: speak, think · Speech: someone speaks here
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 Anthony, Anthony), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Anthony | amod |
| 2 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 more | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 more | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 thought | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Old Anthony | of this place; seldom property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Anthony | of town | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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