Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 18
And if the son of the house felt himself honored, what were the feelings of the Thistle bush?
Who acts: son · What happens: feel, honor, be · To what, where: son, feelings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 felt | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 felt | obj |
| 10 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feelings | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 feelings | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 feelings | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feelings | det |
| 15 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 honored | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bush | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bush | det |
| 18 | Thistle | Thistle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bush | compound |
| 19 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feelings | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the son of the house | son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | honor | participle | son not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the feelings | of the Thistle bush | tree rules |
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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