Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 36
The lieutenant felt this very keenly, and therefore leaned his head against the window-frame, and sighed deeply. "
Who acts: lieutenant · What happens: feel, learn, sigh · To what, where: this, head
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 (lieutenant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lieutenant | det |
| 2 | lieutenant | lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 felt | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 keenly | advmod |
| 6 | keenly | keenly | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaned | cc |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 leaned | advmod |
| 10 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 frame | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frame | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frame | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 window | punct |
| 17 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sighed | cc |
| 20 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 21 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 20 sighed | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the lieutenant | this | keenly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | past | the lieutenant not said here | lieutenant's head | against the window frame; therefore property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 3 | sigh | past | the lieutenant not said here | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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