Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 54
The poor volunteer came out of the last heart in the row quite bewildered.
Who acts: poor volunteer, row · What happens: come out, bewilder · To what, where: last heart
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 (poor volunteer, row), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 volunteer | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 volunteer | amod |
| 3 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 row | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 row | det |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 bewildered | advmod |
| 14 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 row | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the poor volunteer | the last heart in the row | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result | ||||
| 2 | bewilder | past | the row not said here | 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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