Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 15

Who has not had, for once in his life, a moment of poetic inspiration? and at such a moment, if the thoughts are written down, they flow in poetry.

Who acts: thoughts · What happens: not have, write down, flow · To what, where: thoughts, poetry

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 once	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 had	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 once	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 inspiration	case
15	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 inspiration	amod
16	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moment	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 inspiration	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moment	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 moment	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inspiration	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 written	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thoughts	det
26	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 written	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux:pass
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 written	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flow	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flow	nsubj
32	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 written	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 poetry	case
34	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flow	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not have	present · perfect				moment	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	write down a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		the thoughts			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	flow	present	thoughts = thought		poetry		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poetry=Location

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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