Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 61
His thoughts became prayerful, and calm peace rested on his soul.
Who acts: thoughts, Knud · What happens: become, rest, think · To what, where: calm peace, soul
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 (thoughts, Knud), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | prayerful | prayerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peace | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 peace | cc |
| 7 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 peace | amod |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 9 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 peace | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 soul | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 soul | nmod:poss |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rested | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Knud's thoughts | calm peace | prayerful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | rest | participle | calm peace not said here | Knud's soul | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soul=Location | ||||
| 3 | think | Knud | nom thought «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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