Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 14
He had never been ill in his life, nor ever experienced such sensations as those he now felt.
Who acts: rain · What happens: have, not be, experience, feel · To what, where: life, such sensations
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 ill | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 experienced | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 experienced | cc |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 experienced | advmod |
| 12 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sensations | amod |
| 14 | sensations | sensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 experienced | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 those | case |
| 16 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 experienced | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 felt | advmod |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 those | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | rain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | rain not said here | rain's life | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | experience | participle | rain not said here | such sensations | ever | as those | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sensation=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | feel | past | rain | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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