Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 30
Not so the poet; he remembered him, and named him, and wrote down his thoughts on the subject. "
Who acts: poet, performer · What happens: not remember, name, write down, think · To what, where: performer, thoughts, subject
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, performer), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 4 poet | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poet | det |
| 4 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Not | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remembered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 named | cc |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembered | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 named | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrote | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wrote | cc |
| 15 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembered | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 wrote | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wrote | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 subject | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 subject | det |
| 21 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrote | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | past | poet | performer | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | name | past | poet not said here | performer | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write down | past | poet not said here | performer's thoughts | the subject | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thought=Theme on subject=Destination | |||
| 4 | think | performer | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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