Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 9
Never had he felt such a longing for that deep valley as he now had. "
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: not have, feel, have · To what, where: longing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 longing | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 longing | det |
| 7 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 valley | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 valley | amod |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | feel | past | Rudy | such longing | for that deep valley | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent longing=Location for valley=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Rudy | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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