Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 23
The poet shook his head, so also did the clerk; each retained his own opinion, and so they parted. "
Who acts: poet, poets, man · What happens: shake, do, retain, part, opine · To what, where: head, clerk, own opinion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, poets, man), 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 | 2 poet | det |
| 2 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clerk | det |
| 11 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 retained | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 retained | advmod |
| 14 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opinion | amod |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 retained | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 parted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 parted | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 parted | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 parted | nsubj |
| 22 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 retained | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the poet | man's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the poet not said here | the clerk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | retain | past | man's own opinion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | part | past | poets = poet | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | opine | man | nom opinion «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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