Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 35
He went home to his humble room, and modelled a Psyche of clay.
Who acts: remembrance · What happens: go, modell · To what, where: humble room, Psyche
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 (remembrance), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 modelled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 modelled | cc |
| 10 | modelled | modell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Psyche | det |
| 12 | Psyche | psyche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 modelled | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clay | case |
| 14 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Psyche | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | remembrance | remembrance's humble room | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | modell | past | remembrance not said here | a Psyche of clay | 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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