Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 20
Well, I have been very happy," he thought in the midst of his pain, "and must be contented with the past;" and contented he remained till he was put on the loom, and became a beautiful piece of white linen.
Who acts: I, rain, flax · What happens: be, think, content, remain, put, become · To what, where: midst, rain, loom, beautiful piece · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rain, flax), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 midst | det |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pain | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pain | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 midst | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pain | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pain | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 contented | cc |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 contented | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 contented | aux:pass |
| 23 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thought | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 past | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 past | det |
| 26 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 contented | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 contented | cc |
| 30 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | conj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 remained | nsubj |
| 32 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 contented | ccomp |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 put | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 put | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 put | aux:pass |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 remained | advcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 loom | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 loom | det |
| 39 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 became | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 became | cc |
| 42 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | conj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 piece | det |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 piece | amod |
| 45 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 became | xcomp |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 linen | case |
| 47 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 linen | amod |
| 48 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 piece | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | rain | the midst of rain's pain | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | content | must · passive | rain not said here | with the past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | content in a quote | past | the flax = flax not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | past | rain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | put in a quote | past · passive | rain | the loom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on loom=Destination | ||||
| 7 | become in a quote | past | the flax = flax not said here | a beautiful piece of white linen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | pain in a quote | rain | nom pain «state 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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