Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 46
But often there would arise in his mind a doubt as to whether every coal had been quite put out in the little fire-pan in the shop below.
Who acts: Anthony · What happens: arise, put out, mind · To what, where: doubt, mind, coal, little fire pan
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 arise | cc |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 arise | advmod |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 arise | aux |
| 5 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arise | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 doubt | det |
| 10 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arise | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 coal | det |
| 15 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arise | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pan | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pan | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pan | amod |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pan | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fire | punct |
| 26 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 shop | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shop | det |
| 29 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 30 | below | below | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | would | a doubt | Anthony's mind; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doubt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put out | past · perfect · passive | every coal | the little fire pan | in the shop; below property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pan=Destination | |||
| 3 | mind | Anthony | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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