Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 61
"Hem, hem!" said he, sitting down on a bench; his thoughts were very elastic, and his heart softened strangely.
Who acts: Hem, pension, thoughts, heart · What happens: say, sit down, be, soften, think · To what, where: bench · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hem, pension, thoughts, heart), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hem | punct |
| 2 | Hem | hem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hem | punct |
| 4 | hem | hem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hem | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hem | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hem | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sitting | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bench | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bench | det |
| 14 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 elastic | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 elastic | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 elastic | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 elastic | advmod |
| 20 | elastic | elastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 softened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 softened | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 softened | nsubj |
| 25 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 elastic | parataxis |
| 26 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 25 softened | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hem and hem | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit down | gerund | pension | a bench | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | pension's thoughts | elastic property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | soften | past | pension's heart | strangely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think | pension | nom thought «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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