Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 50
Then he entered the heart of this man's wife; it was an old, tumble-down pigeon-house; the husband's portrait served as a weather-cock; it was connected with all the doors, which opened and shut just as the husband's decision turned.
Who acts: rain, name, portrait, doors, decision, husband · What happens: enter, be, tumble, serve, connect, open · To what, where: heart, down pigeon house, name
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 (rain, name, portrait, doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 old | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 old | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tumble | punct |
| 17 | tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 old | conj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 19 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 20 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 pigeon | punct |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tumble | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 served | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 husband | det |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 husband | case |
| 27 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 served | nsubj |
| 28 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 cock | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cock | det |
| 31 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cock | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 weather | punct |
| 33 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 served | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 connected | punct |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 connected | aux:pass |
| 37 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 served | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 doors | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 doors | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 doors | det |
| 41 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 connected | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 opened | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 opened | nsubj |
| 44 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 doors | acl:relcl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 shut | cc |
| 46 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 opened | conj |
| 47 | just | just | ADV | _ | 53 turned | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 turned | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 husband | det |
| 50 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 decision | nmod:poss |
| 51 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 50 husband | case |
| 52 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 turned | nsubj |
| 53 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 opened | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | rain | the heart of this man's wife | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | name | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tumble | infinitive | name not said here | down pigeon house | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | serve | past | the husband's portrait | as a weather cock | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as cock=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | connect | past · passive | name | with all doors | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with door=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | open | past | all doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | turn | past | the husband's decision | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | portray | the husband | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | decide | the husband | nom decision «act 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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