Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 49
No music could have touched his heart as did these sounds of the sea--the rolling sea, the boundless sea, on which a man can be borne across the world before the wind, carrying his own house with him wherever he goes, just as the snail carries its home even into a strange country.
Who acts: man, snail · What happens: touch, do, roll, bear, carry, go · To what, where: music, sounds, man, own house, home
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 (man, snail), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 touched | aux |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | advcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 sounds | det |
| 11 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounds | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 sea | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounds | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 21 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounds | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 borne | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 borne | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 borne | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 borne | aux:pass |
| 30 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sounds | conj |
| 31 | across | across | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 borne | obl |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 wind | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wind | det |
| 36 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 borne | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 carrying | punct |
| 38 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 borne | advcl |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 house | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 house | amod |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carrying | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carrying | obl |
| 44 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 goes | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 goes | nsubj |
| 46 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 carrying | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 carries | punct |
| 48 | just | just | ADV | _ | 52 carries | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 carries | mark |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 snail | det |
| 51 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 carries | nsubj |
| 52 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 goes | conj |
| 53 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 home | nmod:poss |
| 54 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 carries | obj |
| 55 | even | even | ADV | _ | 59 country | advmod |
| 56 | into | into | ADP | _ | 59 country | case |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 country | det |
| 58 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 country | amod |
| 59 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 carries | advcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | could · perfect · passive | no music | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer heart=Result | |||||
| 2 | do | past | this sounds of the sea and the rolling sea and the boundless sea | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bear | can · passive | a man | this sounds of the sea and the rolling sea and the boundless sea | before the wind | across the world | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 5 | carry | gerund | Jurgen's own house | with Jurgen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | present | man | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry | present | the snail | wind's home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
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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