Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 84
Jurgen did not seem to know this; it did not enter his mind, which could only retain fragments of the past.
Who acts: Jurgen, prayer, mind · What happens: not seem, know, not enter, retain, mind · To what, where: this, mind, fragments
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, prayer, mind), 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 | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seem | advmod |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 enter | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enter | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enter | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 enter | advmod |
| 12 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seem | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enter | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 retain | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 retain | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 retain | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 retain | advmod |
| 19 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mind | acl:relcl |
| 20 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 retain | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 past | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 past | det |
| 23 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fragments | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | Jurgen | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not enter | past · do-support | prayer | Jurgen's mind | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Destination | ||||
| 4 | retain | could | Jurgen's mind | fragments of the past | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mind | Jurgen | 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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