Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 176
Brother Ignatius strengthened his longings, and the determination became firm within him.
Who acts: Brother, determination, soil · What happens: strengthen, become, long · To what, where: longings
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 (Brother, determination, soil), 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 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strengthened | nsubj |
| 2 | Ignatius | Ignatius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brother | flat |
| 3 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 longings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | longings | longing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 strengthened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 determination | det |
| 9 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strengthened | conj |
| 11 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strengthened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strengthen | past | Brother | soil's longings | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent longing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the determination | within soil; firm property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | long | soil | nom longing «feeling 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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