Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 45
In truth he thought not of little Gerda, and never supposed she could be standing in the front of the palace.
Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: not think, not suppose, stand · To what, where: truth, front
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Gerda), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 truth | case |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 thought | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gerda | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Gerda | amod |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 supposed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 supposed | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 supposed | advmod |
| 12 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 standing | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 standing | aux |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 supposed | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 front | det |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 front | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | Kay | truth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not suppose | participle | Kay not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | could · progressive | Gerda | the front of the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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