Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 4
Such was the speech of Ole, my friend, the old tower-keeper, a strange, talkative old fellow, who seemed to speak out everything that came into his head, and who for all that had many a serious thought deep in his heart.
Who acts: Such, strange talkative old fellow, that · What happens: be, seem, speak out, come, have, think · To what, where: speech, everything, head, many serious thought heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, strange talkative old fellow, that), 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 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speech | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speech | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speech | det |
| 4 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ole | case |
| 6 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speech | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speech | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeper | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 keeper | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keeper | amod |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeper | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tower | punct |
| 15 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fellow | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fellow | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fellow | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 20 | talkative | talkative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fellow | amod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fellow | amod |
| 22 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speech | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 speak | mark |
| 27 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 speak | compound:prt |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 speak | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 everything | acl:relcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 who | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 who | cc |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 speech | conj |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 had | mark |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 had | det:predet |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 who | advcl |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 heart | amod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 heart | det |
| 44 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 heart | amod |
| 45 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 heart | amod |
| 46 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 49 heart | advmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 heart | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 heart | nmod:poss |
| 49 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Such | the speech and my friend and the old tower keeper and a strange talkative old fellow | of Ole | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a strange talkative old fellow | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | speak out speech: other | to-infinitive | a strange talkative old fellow not said here | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Ole's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | have | past | that | Ole's many serious thought heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | participle | 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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