Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 203
But now," he sighed, "the evil is within me, and it is in yonder man; but it does not bow him down; he goes abroad with head erect, and enjoys his comfort; and I grasped at comfort in the consolations of religion.
Who acts: monk, evil, hand, I · What happens: sigh, be, not bow down, go, enjoy, grasp · To what, where: monk, comfort, religion · 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 (monk, evil, hand, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 sighed | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sighed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sighed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sighed | nsubj |
| 6 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 me | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 me | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evil | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 me | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 me | cop |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sighed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 man | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 20 man | advmod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sighed | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bow | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 bow | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bow | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bow | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 bow | advmod |
| 26 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sighed | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bow | obj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 bow | compound:prt |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 goes | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bow | parataxis |
| 32 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 31 goes | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 goes | obl |
| 35 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 enjoys | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 enjoys | cc |
| 38 | enjoys | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 goes | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 40 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 enjoys | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 grasped | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 grasped | cc |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 grasped | nsubj |
| 44 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sighed | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 comfort | case |
| 46 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grasped | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 consolations | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 consolations | det |
| 49 | consolations | consolation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 grasped | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 religion | case |
| 51 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 consolations | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh in a quote | past | monk | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the evil | within me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | hand | in man; yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not bow down | present · do-support | hand | monk | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | present | monk | with head; abroad property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with head=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | enjoy | present | monk not said here | monk's comfort | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comfort=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | grasp | past | I | comfort | in the consolations of religion | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | comfort | monk | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | console | religion | nom consolation «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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