Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 39
Here in dark night sits the man who measured the mountains in the moon; he who forced his way out into the endless space, among stars and planets; he, the mighty man who understood the spirit of nature, and felt the earth moving beneath his feet--Galileo.
Who acts: man, mighty man, earth · What happens: sit, measure, force out, man, understand, feel · To what, where: man, mountains, moon, way, endless space, spirit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mighty man, earth), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sits | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 measured | nsubj |
| 9 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountains | det |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 measured | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 measured | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 forced | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forced | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 forced | nsubj |
| 18 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sits | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forced | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 forced | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 space | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 space | det |
| 24 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 space | amod |
| 25 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forced | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stars | punct |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 stars | case |
| 28 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 space | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 planets | cc |
| 30 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stars | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 man | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | conj |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 understood | nsubj |
| 38 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 man | acl:relcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spirit | det |
| 40 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 understood | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 nature | case |
| 42 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 spirit | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 felt | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 felt | cc |
| 45 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sits | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 earth | det |
| 47 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 felt | obj |
| 48 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 earth | acl |
| 49 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 51 feet | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 feet | nmod:poss |
| 51 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 moving | obl |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 Galileo | punct |
| 53 | Galileo | Galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 earth | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the man | here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 2 | measure | past | the man | the mountains | the moon | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme mountain=Value | |||
| 3 | force out | past | man | man's way | the endless space | out property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||
| 4 | man | man | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | understand | past | the mighty man | the spirit of nature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | the earth and Galileo | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | |||||
| 7 | move | gerund | the earth and Galileo not said here | man's feet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Trajectory |
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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