Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 15
I'm sorry for the tree,' it thought; 'and I was also at the feast, where the chandeliers glittered.
Who acts: I, tree, chandeliers · What happens: be, think, glitter · To what, where: feast
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tree, chandeliers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 feast | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 feast | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 feast | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 feast | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 feast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorry | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 glittered | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 glittered | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chandeliers | det |
| 23 | chandeliers | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 glittered | nsubj |
| 24 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 feast | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for the tree; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | tree | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | the feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glitter | past | the chandeliers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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