Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 112
He became silent and suspicious, and at last trusted no one, not even himself, and no longer hoping to find and bring home the costly jewel, he gave it up, and gave himself up too, which was worse than all.
Who acts: tumult · What happens: become, trust, hope, find, bring, give up · To what, where: last trusted one, costly jewel, knowledge, tumult
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tumult), 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 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 suspicious | cc |
| 5 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 silent | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 10 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | amod |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 himself | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 himself | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 himself | advmod |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 one | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hoping | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hoping | cc |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 hoping | advmod |
| 21 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 became | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hoping | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 find | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 jewel | det |
| 28 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 jewel | amod |
| 29 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 gave | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gave | cc |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 gave | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 gave | compound:prt |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 gave | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 worse | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 worse | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 worse | cop |
| 44 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 gave | iobj |
| 45 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 all | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 worse | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | tumult | no last trusted one | silent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | tumult not said here | long property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | tumult not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | tumult not said here | the costly jewel | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 6 | give up | past | tumult | knowledge | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 7 | give up | past | tumult not said here | tumult | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | than all; bad property | tree rules |
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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