Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 31
All the while, each one thought most of himself, or of what the money-pig could be thinking.
Who acts: one, money pig · What happens: think · To what, where: most
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, money pig), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 while | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 most | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pig | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pig | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 money | punct |
| 18 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thinking | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 thinking | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thinking | aux |
| 21 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | each one | most of play | while | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | could · progressive | the money pig | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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