Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 62
Anne Lisbeth went forth from the castle into the public road, feeling mournful and sad; he whom she had nursed day and night, and even now carried about in her dreams, had been cold and strange, and had not a word or thought respecting her.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: go, feel, nurse, carry, be, have · To what, where: castle, Anne, word
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 (Anne), 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 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anne | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 10 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sad | cc |
| 16 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mournful | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 whom | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 whom | nsubj |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 went | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nursed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 nursed | aux |
| 22 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nursed | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 night | cc |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 carried | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carried | cc |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 carried | advmod |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 carried | advmod |
| 30 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 dreams | case |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dreams | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carried | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cold | punct |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 cold | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 cold | cop |
| 38 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 carried | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 strange | cc |
| 40 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cold | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 had | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 had | cc |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 word | advmod |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 word | det |
| 46 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | obj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 thought | cc |
| 48 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 had | conj |
| 49 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 thought | xcomp |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 respecting | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Anne | the castle | into the public road; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location into road=Destination | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Anne not said here | mournful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nurse | past · perfect · passive | Anne | day | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | carry | participle | now | about Anne's dreams | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | cold property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | have | past | a word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | respect | gerund | Anne | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | dream | Anne | nom dream «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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