Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 25
But neither the student nor either of his travelling companions felt the least inclination to think of it in this way.
Who acts: student · What happens: feel, think · To what, where: least inclination, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 2 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 student | cc:preconj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 student | det |
| 4 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 either | cc |
| 6 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 student | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 companions | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 companions | compound |
| 10 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 either | nmod |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inclination | det |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 inclination | amod |
| 14 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 think | mark |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 inclination | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 think | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the student either | the least inclination | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the student either not said here | the least inclination not said here | this way | of inclination | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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