Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 45

He saw many handsome girls there, but none like Joanna; and here, where he thought to forget her, she was more life-like before his mind than ever. "

Who acts: Knud, room · What happens: see, think, forget, be, mind · To what, where: many handsome girls, room, more life

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, room), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 saw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 none	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 none	cc
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 saw	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 Joanna	case
11	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 none	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 here	cc
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 saw	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 thought	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 here	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 forget	mark
20	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forget	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 life	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 life	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 life	cop
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 mind	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 mind	case
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 mind	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mind	nmod:poss
31	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 life	appos
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 mind	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 mind	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	Knud	many handsome girls	there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	Knud			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	forget	to-infinitive	Knud not said here	room		tree rules
4	is a	past	room	more life		tree rules
5	mind		Knud			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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