Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 4
His inborn cheerfulness, he said, had been tested by a member of the Polytechnic Institution, and the experiment had made him completely happy.
Who acts: inborn cheerfulness, member · What happens: say, test, make · To what, where: experiment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (inborn cheerfulness, member), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cheerfulness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | inborn | inborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheerfulness | amod |
| 3 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheerfulness | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tested | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tested | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 tested | aux:pass |
| 10 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 member | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 member | det |
| 13 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tested | obl:agent |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Institution | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Institution | det |
| 16 | Polytechnic | Polytechnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Institution | compound |
| 17 | Institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 member | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 experiment | det |
| 21 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 26 happy | advmod |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man's inborn cheerfulness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | test | past · perfect · passive | a member of the Polytechnic Institution | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the experiment | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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