Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 99
Angelo was the stronger; and, with a deep sigh of exhaustion, the young artist threw himself into a chair.
Who acts: Angelo, deep sigh · What happens: be, throw, sigh · To what, where: Angelo, chair, exhaustion
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 (Angelo, deep sigh), 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 | Angelo | Angelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stronger | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stronger | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stronger | det |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sigh | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sigh | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sigh | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sigh | amod |
| 11 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 exhaustion | case |
| 13 | exhaustion | exhaustion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sigh | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 artist | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 artist | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 artist | amod |
| 17 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sigh | conj |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stronger | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 threw | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 chair | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chair | det |
| 22 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Angelo | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | a deep sigh of exhaustion and the young artist | Angelo | into a chair result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into chair=Result | |||
| 3 | sigh | exhaustion | nom sigh «communication 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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