Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 81
And so the Snowdrop was put back into the book, and felt equally honored and pleased to know that it was a token in the glorious book of songs, and that he who was the first to sing and to write had been also a snowdrop, had been a summer gauk, and had been looked upon in the winter-time as a fool.
Who acts: Snowdrop, fool · What happens: put back, feel, honor, know, be, sing · To what, where: Snowdrop, book, token, glorious book, summer gauk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop, fool), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Snowdrop | det |
| 4 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | parataxis |
| 14 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 15 honored | advmod |
| 15 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | cc |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 honored | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pleased | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 token | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 token | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 token | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 token | det |
| 24 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 book | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 book | det |
| 27 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 book | amod |
| 28 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 token | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 songs | case |
| 30 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 book | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 first | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 first | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 first | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 first | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 first | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 first | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 first | det |
| 38 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 felt | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 sing | mark |
| 40 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 first | acl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 write | cc |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 write | mark |
| 43 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 sing | conj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 snowdrop | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 snowdrop | cop |
| 46 | also | also | ADV | _ | 48 snowdrop | advmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 snowdrop | det |
| 48 | snowdrop | snowdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 write | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 gauk | punct |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 gauk | aux |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 gauk | cop |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 gauk | det |
| 53 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 gauk | compound |
| 54 | gauk | gauk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 snowdrop | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 looked | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 looked | cc |
| 57 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 looked | aux |
| 58 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 59 looked | aux:pass |
| 59 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 felt | conj |
| 60 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 65 time | case |
| 61 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 time | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 time | det |
| 63 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 time | compound |
| 64 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 63 winter | punct |
| 65 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 looked | obl |
| 66 | as | as | ADP | _ | 68 fool | case |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 fool | det |
| 68 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 time | nmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past · passive | the Snowdrop | the book | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | honor | participle | equally property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | Snowdrop | a token | the glorious book of songs | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | fool | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | write | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | is a | past · perfect | a snowdrop and a summer gauk | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | is a | past · perfect | a summer gauk | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | look | past · perfect · passive | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
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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