Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 84
No rose was softer, but a fire thrilled through him from this rose--a feeling of power came upon him, and words poured from his tongue--he knew not what he said.
Who acts: rose, fire, words, Providence · What happens: be, thrill, come, pour, not know, say · To what, where: fire, rose, tongue · 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 (rose, fire, words, Providence), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 softer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 softer | cop |
| 4 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 9 | thrilled | thrill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fire | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrilled | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 rose | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 rose | det |
| 14 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrilled | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 feeling | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feeling | det |
| 17 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feeling | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 softer | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 poured | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poured | cc |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 poured | nsubj |
| 26 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 tongue | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poured | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 softer | conj |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 knew | advmod |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 knew | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 softer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no rose | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thrill | participle | a fire not said here | this rose | through fire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | come | past | a fire | upon Providence | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 4 | pour | past | words | Providence's tongue | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from tongue=Source | ||||
| 5 | not know | past | Providence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Providence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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