Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 95
But, in his pain, he had not noticed that his friend Angelo stood beside him; and Angelo held back his arm with a strong grasp, crying,
Who acts: friend, Angelo, face · What happens: not notice, stand, hold back, cry, pain · To what, where: pain, arm · 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 (friend, Angelo, face), 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 | _ | 10 noticed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pain | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 noticed | advmod |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stood | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | Angelo | Angelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | appos |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | ccomp |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 held | cc |
| 20 | Angelo | Angelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 held | nsubj |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 held | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 grasp | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 grasp | det |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grasp | amod |
| 28 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 crying | punct |
| 30 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 held | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past · perfect · passive | face's pain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | face's friend | beside face | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold back | past | Angelo | face's arm | with a strong grasp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Angelo not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pain | face | nom pain «state transitive»: 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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