Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 29
Free! free! that was all I could think of; not of the object of my journey.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: think, journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 all | amod |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Free | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Free | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 all | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 all | cop |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 think | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 object | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 object | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 object | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 object | det |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 object | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | I | of the object of my journey | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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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