Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 71
He was like an instrument in which the strings are loose and will give no sound; only occasionally they regained their power for a few minutes, and then they sounded as they used to do.
Who acts: Jurgen, strings · What happens: be, give, regain, sound, use, do · To what, where: instrument, sound, power
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, strings), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 instrument | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 instrument | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 instrument | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 instrument | det |
| 5 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 loose | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strings | det |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 loose | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 loose | cop |
| 11 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instrument | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 loose | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 regained | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 occasionally | advmod |
| 19 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 21 regained | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 regained | nsubj |
| 21 | regained | regain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 instrument | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 power | nmod:poss |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regained | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 minutes | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 minutes | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 minutes | amod |
| 27 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 regained | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sounded | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sounded | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 sounded | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sounded | nsubj |
| 32 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 regained | conj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 used | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 used | nsubj |
| 35 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sounded | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 used | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instrument | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | like a instrument | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the strings | a instrument | loose property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | future | the strings not said here | no sound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | regain | past | strings = string | strings's power | minute | occasionally property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||
| 5 | sound | past | strings = string | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | use | past | strings = string | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | strings = string not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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