Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 33
He considered himself descended from an old stem, once the pride of the forest.
Who acts: piece · What happens: consider, descend, pride · To what, where: piece, old stem, forest
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 (piece), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 considered | obj |
| 4 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 considered | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stem | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stem | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stem | amod |
| 8 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descended | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pride | punct |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 12 pride | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pride | det |
| 12 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pride | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | piece | piece | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend | participle | piece not said here | a old stem | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stem=Location | ||||
| 3 | pride | the forest | nom pride «feeling 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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