Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 102
Something was working within him, he hardly knew what it was, but it was even stronger than his love for Else; and so he went to Martin's, and what he said and did there was well considered.
Who acts: Something, Jurgen, mind · What happens: work, know, be, go, say, do · To what, where: Martin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Something, Jurgen, mind), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 working | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 working | aux |
| 3 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 working | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 knew | advmod |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 working | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stronger | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 stronger | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stronger | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stronger | cop |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 stronger | advmod |
| 18 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stronger | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Else | case |
| 23 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 18 stronger | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 working | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Martin | case |
| 30 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Martin | case |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 what | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 what | cc |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 went | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 did | cc |
| 38 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 considered | expl |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 considered | aux:pass |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 considered | advmod |
| 42 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 did | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | Something | within Jurgen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Jurgen | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mind | than Jurgen's love; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Jurgen | Martin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to martin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Jurgen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | past | Jurgen not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | consider | past · passive | Jurgen not said here | there | well property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | |||
| 8 | love | Jurgen | nom love «feeling 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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