Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 40

At last he felt convinced, in his own mind, that he really had one, and was so delighted that he positively died of joy at the thought of having at last caught an idea.

Who acts: man, thought · What happens: feel, have, be, die, catch, mind · To what, where: last, one, thought, last caught idea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, thought), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mind	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 mind	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mind	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mind	amod
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	parataxis
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 delighted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 delighted	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 delighted	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 delighted	advmod
21	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 died	nsubj
24	positively	positively	ADV	_	25 died	advmod
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 delighted	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 joy	case
27	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 thought	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thought	det
30	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 having	mark
32	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 thought	acl
33	at	at	ADP	_	37 idea	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 idea	amod
35	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 idea	amod
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 idea	det
37	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 having	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	man		last	convinced property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	man	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	is	past	man not said here			delighted property	tree rules
4	die	past	man		the thought	of joy; positively property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of joy=Causer
5	have	gerund	the thought not said here		a last caught idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	mind		man				nom mind «cognition 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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