Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 96
Many thoughts, strong and weak, rushed through Jurgen's brain, and he said to Else:
Who acts: thought · What happens: rush, say · To what, where: brain · 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 (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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thoughts | amod |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weak | cc |
| 6 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strong | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 brain | case |
| 10 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Jurgen | case |
| 12 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Else | case |
| 18 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | Jurgen's brain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through brain=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thought | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to else=Recipient |
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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