Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 126
But Christina, in her heart, often thought of Ib, and knew how much he thought of her; so she felt inclined to refuse this good fortune, added the boatman.
Who acts: boatman, Christina · What happens: think, know, feel, refuse, add · To what, where: Christina, much, good fortune, boatman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman, Christina), 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 | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 2 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Christina | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Christina | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ib | case |
| 11 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 much | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 felt | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | parataxis |
| 25 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 refuse | mark |
| 27 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 inclined | xcomp |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 fortune | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fortune | amod |
| 30 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 refuse | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 added | punct |
| 32 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 felt | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 boatman | det |
| 34 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 added | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | Christina | of Ib; often property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | boatman | of Christina | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Christina | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | refuse | to-infinitive | Christina not said here | this good fortune | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | past | Christina not said here | the boatman | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Patient |
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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