Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 82
He felt what was taking place, and laughed to himself. "
Who acts: Flying · What happens: feel, take, laugh · To what, where: place, Flying
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 (Flying), 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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 laughed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Flying = fly | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Flying = fly not said here | Flying = fly | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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