Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 55

He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears--

Who acts: paper, words · What happens: think, not see, sound, word · To what, where: elegant little dancer, ears, song

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper, words), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 dancer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dancer	det
5	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dancer	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dancer	amod
7	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 see	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dancer	acl:relcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sounded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sounded	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sounded	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 song	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 song	det
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
21	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ears	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ears	nmod:poss
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sounded	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	paper				of the elegant little dancer	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not see	should	paper	the elegant little dancer		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	sound	past	the words of the song		paper's ears			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	word			the song				nom word «communication 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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