Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 108
I got tired at last of those endless Madonnas; I began to think I was turning into a Madonna myself."
Who acts: I · What happens: get, begin, think, turn · To what, where: myself, Madonna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Madonnas | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Madonnas | det |
| 8 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Madonnas | amod |
| 9 | Madonnas | madonna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 last | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 turning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turning | aux |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | ccomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 Madonna | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Madonna | det |
| 20 | Madonna | Madonna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obl |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 turning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | last, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past · progressive | I | myself | into a Madonna result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into madonna=Result |
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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