Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 36
It made me think of the old stories when the gods, in their immortal youth, wandered upon this earth, and paid visits to mankind.
Who acts: kind, me, gods · What happens: make, think, wander, pay · To what, where: me, earth, visits
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, me, gods), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stories | amod |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 wandered | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gods | det |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 youth | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 youth | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 youth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 youth | amod |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gods | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 youth | punct |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | advcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 paid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 paid | cc |
| 24 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 25 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 paid | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 mankind | case |
| 27 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 paid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | kind | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | me not said here | of the old stories | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | the gods in gods's immortal youth | this earth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | kind not said here | visits | to mankind | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
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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