Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 172
He found it vanity and delusion--and vanity and delusion it had been to him.
Who acts: soil, vanity · What happens: find, be · To what, where: cloud · 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 (soil, vanity), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 delusion | cc |
| 6 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanity | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 him | cc |
| 9 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 him | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 delusion | cc |
| 11 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vanity | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 him | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 him | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 him | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | soil | cloud | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme vanity=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | vanity and delusion | to reality | 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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