Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 16
He felt as if his heart would break while he thought of it, and while so many memories lingered on his mind.
Who acts: Rudy, heart · What happens: feel, break, think, linger, mind · To what, where: many memories, mind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | aux |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 memories | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 memories | cc |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 memories | mark |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 memories | amod |
| 19 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 felt | obl |
| 20 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 memories | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lingered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Rudy | many memories | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break a condition, not said to happen | would | Rudy's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Rudy | of heart | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | linger | participle | many memories not said here | Rudy's mind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mind=Location | ||||
| 5 | mind | Rudy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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