Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 18
"That's a true picture of our poetryless time, that I see before me now," thought the young man; and that was at least a thought, a grain of gold that he found by the door of the wise woman.
Who acts: That, young man, man · What happens: be, see, think, find · To what, where: true picture, least thought · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, young man, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 picture | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 picture | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 picture | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 picture | det |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 picture | amod |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 time | nmod:poss |
| 9 | poetryless | poetryless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picture | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 picture | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 see | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thought | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 least | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 least | cop |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 least | case |
| 29 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 thought | amod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 thought | det |
| 31 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picture | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grain | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 grain | det |
| 34 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thought | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grain | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 found | obj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 found | nsubj |
| 39 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thought | acl:relcl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 door | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 door | det |
| 42 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 woman | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 woman | det |
| 45 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 woman | amod |
| 46 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 door | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a true picture and a least thought and a grain of gold | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the young man = man | before the young man = man; now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the young man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | that | least property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | man | a least thought and a grain of gold | by the door of the wise woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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