Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 196
This was a determination to throw herself entirely into whatever she undertook, and it made her feel as if she had eyes even at the tips of her fingers, and could hear down into her very heart.
Who acts: This, page, determination · What happens: be, throw, undertake, make, feel, have · To what, where: determination, page, whatever, eyes, heart
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 (This, page, determination), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 determination | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determination | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 determination | det |
| 4 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 throw | mark |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determination | acl |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 throw | obj |
| 8 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 6 throw | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 whatever | case |
| 10 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 throw | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 undertook | nsubj |
| 12 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determination | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 feel | ccomp |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 tips | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 tips | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tips | det |
| 27 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fingers | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tips | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hear | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hear | cc |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hear | aux |
| 34 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 hear | compound:prt |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 heart | advmod |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hear | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a determination | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | page | into whatever result; entirely property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into whatever=Result | ||||
| 3 | undertake | past | page | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | past | determination | page | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | page not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | page | eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hear down | could | determination not said here | page's heart | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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