Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 15
This was his most hopeful thought, though it often came to nothing.
Who acts: This, toy · What happens: be, come · To what, where: hopeful thought, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, toy), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nmod:poss |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 hopeful | advmod |
| 5 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | amod |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | boy's hopeful thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | toy | nothing | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nothing=Initial_Location |
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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