Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 74
Now these thoughts were great and daring, as our thoughts generally are at home, before we have gone out into the world, and encountered its storms and tempests, its thorns and its thistles.
Who acts: thoughts, we, our, world · What happens: be, dare, go out, encounter, think, storm · To what, where: world, storms
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 (thoughts, we, our, world), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 great | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 thoughts | det |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 great | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daring | cc |
| 7 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 great | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 home | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 home | nsubj |
| 12 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 11 thoughts | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 home | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daring | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 gone | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 great | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 gone | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 encountered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 encountered | cc |
| 27 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | conj |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 storms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 encountered | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tempests | cc |
| 31 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 storms | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thorns | punct |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 thorns | nmod:poss |
| 34 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 storms | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thistles | cc |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 thistles | nmod:poss |
| 37 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 storms | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this thoughts | now | great property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dare | gerund | this thoughts not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | our thoughts | as home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go out | present · perfect | we | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | encounter | past | this thoughts not said here | world's storms and tempests and world's thorns and world's thistles | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think | our | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | storm | world | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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