Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 64
The children thought deeply on all these things, and meditated upon them day and night.
Who acts: children · What happens: think, meditate
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 (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 meditated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 meditated | cc |
| 11 | meditated | meditate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meditated | obl |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meditated | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 night | cc |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the children | on all things; deeply property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | meditate | participle | the children not said here | day | upon children = child | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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