Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 68
It was all that was necessary; but he suddenly felt in his heart that he hated Martin, and the more he thought the more he felt convinced that Martin had stolen away from him the only being he ever loved, and that this was Else: he had never thought of Else in this way before, but now it all became plain to him.
Who acts: head, Jurgen · What happens: be, feel, hate, think, steal away, not think · To what, where: Martin, Jurgen, way · 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 (head, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 necessary | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 necessary | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 necessary | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 necessary | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 necessary | cop |
| 6 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 felt | advmod |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 necessary | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hated | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hated | nsubj |
| 17 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | advcl |
| 18 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hated | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 more | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 thought | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 necessary | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 more | det |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 thought | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 felt | xcomp |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 stolen | mark |
| 31 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stolen | aux |
| 33 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 convinced | ccomp |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 stolen | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stolen | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 only | det |
| 38 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stolen | conj |
| 39 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 loved | cop |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 loved | nsubj |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 loved | advmod |
| 42 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 only | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 thought | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 thought | cc |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 was | mark |
| 46 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 was | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 thought | aux:pass |
| 48 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 47 was | advmod |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 was | punct |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 thought | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 thought | aux |
| 52 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 53 thought | advmod |
| 53 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 necessary | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Else | case |
| 55 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 53 thought | obl |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 way | case |
| 57 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 58 way | det |
| 58 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 thought | obl |
| 59 | before | before | ADV | _ | 58 way | advmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 became | punct |
| 61 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 65 became | cc |
| 62 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 65 became | advmod |
| 63 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 became | nsubj |
| 64 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 63 it | det |
| 65 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 necessary | conj |
| 66 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 became | xcomp |
| 67 | to | to | ADP | _ | 68 him | case |
| 68 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 plain | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | head | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Jurgen | in Jurgen's heart; suddenly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hate | past | Jurgen | Martin | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer martin=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Jurgen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | Jurgen | convinced property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | steal away | past · perfect · passive | Martin | from Jurgen; away property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source | ||||
| 7 | is | gerund | Jurgen | ever | love property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | not think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Jurgen | this way | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 9 | become | past | head | now | plain property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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