Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 55
He could not collect his thoughts, and imagined his foolish fancies had carried him away. "
Who acts: rain · What happens: not collect, imagine, carry away, think, fancy · To what, where: thoughts, foolish fancies
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 collect | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 collect | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 collect | advmod |
| 4 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collect | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 imagined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 imagined | cc |
| 9 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collect | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fancies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fancies | amod |
| 12 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 imagined | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collect | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 collect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not collect | could | rain | rain's thoughts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 2 | imagine | past | rain not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry away | past · perfect · passive | rain's foolish fancies | away property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value | ||||
| 4 | think | rain | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fancy | rain | nom fancy «cognition 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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