Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 56
Every one in the house who was present listened, and shared the pleasure; but Sarah, the Jewish girl, sitting so still in a corner, felt her heart burn with excitement.
Who acts: house, one, girl · What happens: be, listen, share, sit, feel, burn · To what, where: pleasure, corner, heart burn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, one, girl), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 present | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 present | cop |
| 8 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | acl:relcl |
| 9 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 present | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shared | cc |
| 12 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pleasure | det |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shared | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sarah | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sarah | cc |
| 17 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shared | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 girl | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sarah | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 shared | advcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 still | advmod |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 corner | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 corner | det |
| 28 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felt | punct |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shared | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 burn | nmod:poss |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 burn | compound |
| 33 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 excitement | case |
| 35 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | participle | the house not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | share | past | every one in the house | the pleasure | Sarah obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sit | gerund | every one in the house not said here | a corner | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||
| 5 | feel | past | every one in the house not said here | girl's heart burn | with excitement | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Theme | |||
| 6 | burn | girl | nom burn «state intransitive»: 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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