Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 106
Thus sounded the old Christmas carol, and every one on board the ship felt his thoughts elevated, through the song and the prayer, even as the old tree had felt lifted up in its last, its beautiful dream on that Christmas morn.
Who acts: one, thoughts, old tree, Christ, song · What happens: sound, feel, elevate, lift up, think, dream · To what, where: old Christmas carol, song, last, Christmas morn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, thoughts, old tree, Christ), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carol | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carol | amod |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carol | compound |
| 6 | carol | carol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sounded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 12 | board | board | ADP | _ | 11 on | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sounded | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 elevated | nsubj |
| 18 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 song | punct |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 song | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 song | det |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 elevated | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prayer | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prayer | det |
| 25 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 song | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 felt | punct |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 felt | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 felt | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tree | amod |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 felt | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 felt | aux |
| 33 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 felt | conj |
| 34 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 felt | xcomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 lifted | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 last | nmod:poss |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lifted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dream | punct |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 dream | nmod:poss |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 dream | amod |
| 42 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 felt | advcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 morn | case |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 morn | det |
| 45 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 morn | compound |
| 46 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dream | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the old Christmas carol | thus property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | every one on the ship | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | elevate | past | Christ's thoughts | the song and the prayer | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past · perfect | the old tree | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lift up | participle | the old tree not said here | song's last | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in last=Destination | ||||
| 6 | think | Christ | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | dream | song | that Christmas morn | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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