Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 93
Life, power, and enjoyment were in the future, and he felt free and light as a bird.
Who acts: enjoyment, Life · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: future
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enjoyment, Life), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Life | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 future | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 future | cc |
| 6 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 future | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 future | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 future | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 future | det |
| 10 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Life | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 light | cc |
| 17 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 free | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 bird | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | enjoyment | the future | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Life and power and the future | as a bird; free property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as bird=Theme |
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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