Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 22
Ah, yes, and there was another pair of eyes that I remember,--it is really wonderful how the thoughts jump from one thing to another!
Who acts: I, pair, thoughts · What happens: be, remember, jump · To what, where: pair, eyes, one thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pair, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 pair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 pair | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pair | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 pair | det |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pair | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 remember | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 remember | nsubj |
| 14 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wonderful | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 wonderful | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wonderful | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wonderful | cop |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 wonderful | advmod |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pair | parataxis |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 jump | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thoughts | det |
| 23 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jump | nsubj |
| 24 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wonderful | advcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 thing | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 thing | nummod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jump | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 another | case |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 jump | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | another pair | of eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | I | eyes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | pair | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | jump | present | the thoughts | one thing | to another result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from thing=Initial_State to another=Result |
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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