Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 144
Thinking as he did of old times, no wonder the three nuts came into his mind which the gypsy woman had given him when a child, and of the two which he had given to Christina.
Who acts: wonder, Ib · What happens: think, do, come, give, mind · To what, where: mind, gypsy woman, Ib, Christina · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wonder, Ib), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thinking | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 wonder | det |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nuts | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 nuts | nummod |
| 13 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wonder | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 given | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | gypsy | gypsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mind | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | iobj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 child | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 given | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 given | cc |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 two | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 two | det |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 given | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 given | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 given | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 given | aux |
| 36 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Christina | case |
| 38 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 given | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | no wonder and the three nuts not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Ib | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | no wonder and the three nuts | Ib's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | the gypsy woman | Ib | a child obl | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | Christina | of the two | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to christina=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | mind | Ib | nom mind «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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