Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 57
Their lives and their deeds, looked at after my own fashion, I write down in my diary, as every one ought to do.
Who acts: lives, I, one · What happens: look, write down, do · To what, where: diary
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 (lives, I, one), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 deeds | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lives | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fashion | amod |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 write | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 write | nsubj |
| 15 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 write | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 diary | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 diary | nmod:poss |
| 19 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 write | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 write | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | friends's lives and friends's deeds | at my own fashion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fashion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write down | present | I | my diary | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in diary=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | ought | every one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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