Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 15
His first feeling was one of anger, and then his spirits sank below zero.
Who acts: first feeling, spirits · What happens: be, sink · To what, where: one, zero
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first feeling, spirits), 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 | 3 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 feeling | amod |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sank | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sank | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sank | nsubj |
| 13 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | parataxis |
| 14 | below | below | ADV | _ | 15 zero | advmod |
| 15 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | body's first feeling | one | of anger | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | past | body's spirits | zero | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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