Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 31
They reminded him of Babette and of himself, and of his future happiness, and his heart glowed at the thought.
Who acts: stars, heart · What happens: remind, glow · To what, where: snow, thought
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, heart), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reminded | nsubj |
| 2 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reminded | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Babette | case |
| 5 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reminded | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 himself | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 Babette | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happiness | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happiness | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 happiness | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 happiness | amod |
| 14 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reminded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glowed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glowed | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glowed | nsubj |
| 19 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reminded | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glowed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | stars = star | snow | of Babette; of snow's future happiness | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of babette=Topic | |||
| 2 | glow | past | snow's heart | the thought | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location |
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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