Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 80
His staff had fallen out of his hand, and his eyes stared at the moon, about which his honest soul was wandering.
Who acts: staff, eyes, honest soul · What happens: fall, stare, wonder · To what, where: hand
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 (staff, eyes, honest soul), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 staff | nmod:poss |
| 2 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stared | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wandering | punct |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 wandering | obl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 soul | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soul | amod |
| 22 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandering | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandering | aux |
| 24 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stared | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | watchman's staff | watchman's hand | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | watchman's eyes | at the moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | watchman's honest soul | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about which=Stimulus |
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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