Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 46
He sat down again and nodded, but he could not get the dream out of his thoughts, and he still had the goloshes on his feet.
Who acts: happiness · What happens: sit down, nod, not get, have, think · To what, where: dream, thoughts, goloshes, feet
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 (happiness), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nodded | cc |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nodded | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 thoughts | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thoughts | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 had | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goloshes | det |
| 25 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | happiness | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | happiness not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not get | could | happiness | the dream | happiness's thoughts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | have | past | happiness | the goloshes | happiness's feet | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent golosh=Patient | ||
| 5 | think | happiness | nom thought «cognition 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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