Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 206
She thought he must be the cleverest man in all the world, and felt the greatest respect for his knowledge.
Who acts: Water, prince · What happens: think, be, feel · To what, where: cleverest man, world, greatest respect · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 world | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 respect | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 respect | amod |
| 18 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 knowledge | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Water | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | prince | the cleverest man | all world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Water not said here | the greatest respect | for prince's knowledge | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent respect=Location for knowledge=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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