Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 17
No, instead of wishing he kept twisting about, yet did not stir from the spot.
Who acts: body · What happens: wish, keep, twist, not stir · To what, where: spot
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 (body), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 wishing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wishing | punct |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 wishing | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kept | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 twisting | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stir | advmod |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 spot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | body not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | body | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | twist | gerund | body not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not stir | past · do-support | body not said here | the spot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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