Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 187
He mortified his body, but the evil came from within.
Who acts: source, evil · What happens: mortify, come · To what, where: body
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 (source, evil), 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 mortified | nsubj |
| 2 | mortified | mortify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mortified | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 evil | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mortified | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 came | obl |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 from | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mortified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mortify | past | source | source's body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the evil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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