Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 28
But his thoughts were far more ambitious, as the thoughts of a man often are.
Who acts: thoughts, man · What happens: be, think · To what, where: man
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 (thoughts, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 ambitious | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ambitious | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ambitious | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 ambitious | advmod |
| 7 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thoughts | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 thoughts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thoughts | det |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thoughts | nmod |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 are | advmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ambitious | cop |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ambitious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man's thoughts | ambitious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think | man | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | think | a man | 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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