Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 40
Then he packed all my dolls into the box, and fastened it on my back, and I felt as if I were spinning round in a circle, and presently found myself lying on the floor.
Who acts: wish, I, myself · What happens: pack, fasten, feel, spin round, find, lie · To what, where: dolls, box, circle, myself, floor
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 (wish, I, myself), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 packed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 packed | nsubj |
| 3 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 dolls | det:predet |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dolls | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 packed | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fastened | cc |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 packed | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fastened | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 packed | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 spinning | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 spinning | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 spinning | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 spinning | aux |
| 25 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 felt | advcl |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 spinning | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 circle | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 circle | det |
| 29 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spinning | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 found | cc |
| 32 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 33 found | advmod |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 packed | conj |
| 34 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 found | obj |
| 35 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 found | xcomp |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 floor | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 floor | det |
| 38 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lying | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past | wish | my dolls | the box | then | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent doll=Theme into box=Destination | ||
| 2 | fasten | past | wish not said here | box | on my back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on back=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | spin round | past · progressive | I | a circle | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | find | past | wish not said here | myself | presently property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 6 | lie | gerund | myself not said here | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
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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