Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 49
He understood his own heart in these thoughts; they were as a ray from the mind of the Great Master of all minds.
Who acts: poet, thoughts · What happens: understand, be, mind · To what, where: own heart, thoughts, mind, Great Master
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 understood | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thoughts | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 thoughts | det |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 understood | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ray | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ray | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ray | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ray | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ray | det |
| 14 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 understood | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ray | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Master | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Master | det |
| 20 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Master | amod |
| 21 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mind | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 minds | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 minds | det |
| 24 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Master | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | poet | poet's own heart | this thoughts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | thoughts = thought | the mind of the Great Master of all minds | as a ray | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mind | the Great Master of all minds | nom mind «cognition 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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