Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 131
And the tin soldier felt as if he was recovering from a fainting fit. "
Who acts: tin soldier, riddance · What happens: feel, recover · To what, where: fainting fit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin soldier, riddance), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 felt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 3 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | compound |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 recovering | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 recovering | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 recovering | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 recovering | aux |
| 10 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 felt | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 fit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fit | det |
| 13 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fit | compound |
| 14 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recovering | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the tin soldier | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | recover | past · progressive | riddance | a fainting fit | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fit=Source |
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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