Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 125
He thought of all the terror and anxiety which he had undergone, and felt thankful from his heart for the reality and comfort of modern times, which, with all their errors, were far better than those in which he so lately found himself.
Who acts: Street, reality · What happens: think, undergo, feel, be, find, comfort · To what, where: terror, heart, Street, modern times
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Street, reality), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 terror | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 terror | det |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 anxiety | cc |
| 8 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 terror | conj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 undergone | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 undergone | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 undergone | aux |
| 12 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 terror | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 16 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 reality | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reality | det |
| 22 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 comfort | cc |
| 24 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reality | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 26 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 comfort | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 errors | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 errors | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 errors | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 errors | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 errors | det:predet |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 errors | nmod:poss |
| 34 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 times | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 better | punct |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 better | cop |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 better | advmod |
| 38 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 felt | ccomp |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 those | case |
| 40 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 better | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 those | nmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 found | advmod |
| 45 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 46 found | advmod |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 better | parataxis |
| 47 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 found | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Street | of all terror and anxiety | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | undergo | past · perfect · passive | all terror and anxiety | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Street not said here | Street's heart | for the reality and comfort of modern times and reality's errors; thankful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | Street not said here | than those; far, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Street | Street | lately property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 6 | comfort | modern times and reality's errors | nom comfort «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | err | reality | nom error «act intransitive»: 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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