Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 26
But he was conscious of his innocence, and as there was no chance of clearing himself at present he submitted to his fate.
Who acts: Jurgen, chance · What happens: be, clear, submit, fate · To what, where: chance, Jurgen, present, fate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, chance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 conscious | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conscious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conscious | cop |
| 4 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 innocence | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conscious | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chance | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chance | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chance | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 chance | det |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 innocence | appos |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 clearing | mark |
| 16 | clearing | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 chance | acl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 clearing | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 present | case |
| 19 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clearing | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 submitted | nsubj |
| 21 | submitted | submit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 present | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fate | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fate | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 submitted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conscious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | of Jurgen's innocence; conscious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | no chance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | clear | gerund | no chance not said here | Jurgen | present | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source | |||
| 4 | submit | past | Jurgen | present not said here | Jurgen's fate | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 5 | fate | Jurgen | nom fate «event 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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