Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 4

Jurgen felt overcome by a holy, childlike feeling, like that which possessed him, when, as a boy, he stood in the splendid Spanish cathedral.

Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: feel, overcome, possess, stand · To what, where: Jurgen, splendid Spanish cathedral

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 feeling	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feeling	det
6	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 holy	punct
8	childlike	childlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	amod
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 overcome	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 possessed	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 possessed	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 possessed	nsubj
14	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 possessed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 when	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 possessed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 boy	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 possessed	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 cathedral	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cathedral	det
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cathedral	amod
28	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cathedral	amod
29	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Jurgen				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	overcome	participle	Jurgen not said here				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	possess	past		Jurgen		like that	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	stand	past	Jurgen		the splendid Spanish cathedral		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cathedral=Location

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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