Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 12
In his breast there rises a thought which he himself cannot rightly analyze, but the thought has some connection with the sunbeam, with the bird, and with the scent of violets, which grow luxuriantly in spring at the foot of the wall.
Who acts: bird, thought, violets · What happens: rise, not analyze, have, grow, scent · To what, where: thought, breast, connection, foot, violets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, thought, violets), 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 | _ | 3 breast | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rises | advmod |
| 5 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 analyze | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 analyze | nsubj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 analyze | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 analyze | advmod |
| 13 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 14 analyze | advmod |
| 14 | analyze | analyze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rises | conj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 connection | det |
| 21 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sunbeam | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sunbeam | det |
| 24 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 connection | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bird | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sunbeam | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scent | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scent | cc |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 scent | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 scent | det |
| 33 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 violets | case |
| 35 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 scent | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grow | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 grow | nsubj |
| 38 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 violets | acl:relcl |
| 39 | luxuriantly | luxuriantly | ADV | _ | 38 grow | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 spring | case |
| 41 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grow | obl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 foot | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 foot | det |
| 44 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grow | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 wall | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 wall | det |
| 47 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 foot | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | a thought | bird's breast; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not analyze | can | bird | a thought | rightly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | the thought | some connection | with the sunbeam and the bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient | |||
| 4 | grow | present | violets | the foot of the wall | spring | luxuriantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||
| 5 | scent | violets | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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