Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 26
The more the top thought of this, the more he longed for the ball.
Who acts: boy · What happens: long, think · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 4 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 longed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 more | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 longed | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 longed | nsubj |
| 12 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | boy | for the ball | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ball=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think | this | nom thought «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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