Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 101
Jurgen turned these things over in his mind all night.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: turn over, mind · To what, where: things, mind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | past | Jurgen | this things | Jurgen's mind | night | over property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |
| 2 | mind | Jurgen | 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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