Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 52
Sometimes, when such thoughts crossed his mind, the fiery nature rose within him, and he beat the wall with his clenched fists.
Who acts: such thoughts, fiery nature, nature, snail · What happens: cross, rise, beat, clench, mind · To what, where: mind, wall
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 (such thoughts, fiery nature, nature, 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 rose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 crossed | mark |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crossed | nsubj |
| 6 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crossed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crossed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nature | det |
| 11 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nature | amod |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beat | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beat | nsubj |
| 19 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beat | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fists | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fists | nmod:poss |
| 24 | clenched | clench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fists | amod |
| 25 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | such thoughts | snail's mind | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the fiery nature | within snail; sometimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat | past | nature | the wall | with snail's clenched fists | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wall=Patient with fist=Instrument | |||
| 4 | clench | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | snail | nom mind «cognition 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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