Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 79
He became more and more thoughtful--kept on thinking and thinking till near Christmas, and then a flower of thought came forth.
Who acts: youngest, flower · What happens: become, keep, think, come
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 (youngest, flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 thoughtful | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thoughtful | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 thoughtful | advmod |
| 6 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thoughtful | conj |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 thinking | mark |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kept | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | cc |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thinking | conj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 Christmas | case |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 Christmas | case |
| 15 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thinking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 came | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flower | det |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flower | nmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | youngest = young | thoughtful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | youngest = young not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | youngest = young not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | youngest = young not said here | till Christmas | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | a flower of thought | then | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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