Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 99
His heart beat quickly, and for a moment he seemed to have foregotten Babette, so full were his thoughts of old recollections.
Who acts: heart, house · What happens: beat, seem, foregotten, be · To what, where: Babette, full thoughts
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 (heart, house), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 beat | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 foregotten | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 foregotten | aux |
| 14 | foregotten | foregotten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 foregotten | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 full | advmod |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thoughts | amod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thoughts | cop |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seemed | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 recollections | case |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 recollections | amod |
| 24 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thoughts | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | house's heart | quickly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | house | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | foregotten | to-infinitive · perfect | house not said here | Babette | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | house's full thoughts | of old recollections | tree rules |
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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