Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 32
It was a glorious spectacle; but the stomachs of the travellers were empty, their bodies exhausted with fatigue, and all the longings of their heart turned towards a resting-place for the night; but where to find one they knew not.
Who acts: coldness, stomachs, longings, heart · What happens: be, exhaust, turn, find, not know, long · To what, where: glorious spectacle, bodies, resting place, one
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 (coldness, stomachs, longings, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spectacle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spectacle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spectacle | det |
| 4 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spectacle | amod |
| 5 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 empty | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 empty | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stomachs | det |
| 9 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 empty | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 travellers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 travellers | det |
| 12 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stomachs | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 empty | cop |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spectacle | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bodies | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spectacle | conj |
| 18 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bodies | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 fatigue | case |
| 20 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 exhausted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 turned | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 turned | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 longings | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 longings | det |
| 25 | longings | longing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 longings | nmod |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spectacle | parataxis |
| 30 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 32 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 place | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 resting | punct |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 night | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 place | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 find | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 find | cc |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 find | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 find | mark |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 turned | conj |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 find | obj |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 knew | nsubj |
| 45 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 one | acl:relcl |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 knew | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spectacle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | coldness | a glorious spectacle and stomachs's bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the stomachs of the travellers | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | stomachs's bodies not said here | with fatigue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | all longings of stomachs's heart | a resting place for the night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards place=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | all longings of stomachs's heart not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not know | past | longings = longing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | long | stomachs's heart | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=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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