Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 12
He never would do it, for this dream always satisfied him.
Who acts: boy, dream · What happens: not do, satisfy · To what, where: water, boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, dream), 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 | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 satisfied | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 satisfied | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 dream | det |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 satisfied | nsubj |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 satisfied | advmod |
| 11 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 satisfied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | would | boy | water | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | satisfy | past | this dream | boy | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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