Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 161
Gloomy, quiet, absorbed in his own thoughts, he sat there through the long day; he heard nothing of what was going on around him, and no man guessed what was passing in this human soul.
Who acts: Gloomy, glance, man · What happens: absorb, sit, hear, go on, guess, pass · To what, where: own thoughts, nothing, human soul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gloomy, glance, man), 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 | Gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gloomy | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 absorbed | punct |
| 5 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gloomy | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 thoughts | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thoughts | amod |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 absorbed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thoughts | acl:relcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sat | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 heard | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 going | compound:prt |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 going | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 guessed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 guessed | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 guessed | nsubj |
| 33 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | conj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 passing | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 passing | aux |
| 36 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 guessed | ccomp |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 soul | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 soul | det |
| 39 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 soul | amod |
| 40 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passing | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | participle | Gloomy not said here | glance's own thoughts | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | glance | glance's own thoughts not said here | there | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme | ||
| 3 | hear | past | Gloomy | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | around glance | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location | |||||
| 5 | guess | past | no man | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | pass | past · progressive | this human soul | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | |||||
| 7 | think | glance | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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