Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 34
Knud listened, but he felt as if the world had slid out of its course.
Who acts: Knud, world · What happens: listen, feel, slide · To what, where: course
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, world), 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 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 felt | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 slid | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 slid | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slid | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slid | aux |
| 12 | slid | slide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 felt | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 course | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 course | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 course | nmod:poss |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Knud | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Knud | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | slide | past · perfect | the world | world's course | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out course=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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