Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 92
His thoughts on the subject quite weighed him down; he stood the whole of the following day on one leg, with half-shut eyes, thinking deeply.
Who acts: thoughts, sunbeam · What happens: weigh down, stand, follow, think · To what, where: sunbeam, one leg, subject
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, sunbeam), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weighed | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 subject | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 subject | det |
| 5 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thoughts | nmod |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 weighed | advmod |
| 7 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 weighed | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 weighed | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weighed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whole | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whole | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 leg | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 leg | nummod |
| 21 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eyes | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 shut | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 half | punct |
| 26 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thinking | punct |
| 29 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 30 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 29 thinking | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh down | past | sunbeam's thoughts on the subject | sunbeam | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | sunbeam | one leg | with shut eyes; whole property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | sunbeam not said here | deeply property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think | sunbeam | the subject | nom thought «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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