Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 51
The young man felt the truth of the proverb, "Still waters run deep:" and his heart had sunk into their depths.
Who acts: young man, Still waters · What happens: feel, run, sink · To what, where: truth, heart, depths
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 (young man, Still waters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 proverb | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 proverb | det |
| 9 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 truth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 12 | Still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 waters | amod |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 run | nsubj |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sunk | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sunk | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sunk | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sunk | aux |
| 22 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 run | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 depths | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 depths | nmod:poss |
| 25 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sunk | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the young man | the truth of the proverb | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | present | Still waters | deep property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink | past · perfect · passive | power's heart | heart's depths | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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