Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 145
No one thanked him for the offer, and I saw the ruined old gentleman lift his head, and throw it back more proudly than ever.
Who acts: one, I, ruined old gentleman · What happens: thank, see, ruin, lift, throw back · To what, where: Ramel, ruined old gentleman, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, ruined old gentleman), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 offer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 offer | det |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gentleman | det |
| 13 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gentleman | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gentleman | amod |
| 15 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 16 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lift | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 throw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 throw | cc |
| 21 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lift | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 throw | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 throw | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 proudly | advmod |
| 25 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 21 throw | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 proudly | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | no one | Ramel | for the offer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for offer=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | past | I | the ruined old gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lift | infinitive | the ruined old gentleman not said here | Ramel's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw back | infinitive | the ruined old gentleman not said here | head | proudly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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