Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 107
She folded her little hands, and thought, "How good everyone is to me, men and animals too;" then she closed her eyes and fell into a sweet sleep.
Who acts: crow, everyone · What happens: fold, think, be, close, fall · To what, where: little hands, eyes, sweet sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, everyone), 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 folded | nsubj |
| 2 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hands | amod |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 folded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 folded | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 11 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 everyone | amod |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 me | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 me | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 me | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 animals | cc |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 me | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 closed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 closed | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 closed | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 closed | nsubj |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 folded | parataxis |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closed | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 closed | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 sleep | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sleep | det |
| 33 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sleep | amod |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | crow | crow's little hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | crow not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | everyone | to crow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | close | past | crow | crow's eyes | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 5 | fall | past | crow not said here | into a sweet sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
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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