Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 13
I smiled, for I knew that a poet's crown adorns his own name.
Who acts: I, crown, poet, turf · What happens: smile, know, adorn, crown, name · To what, where: own name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, crown, poet, turf), 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 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | parataxis |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 adorns | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 poet | det |
| 9 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 poet | case |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adorns | nsubj |
| 12 | adorns | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 name | amod |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adorns | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | I | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | adorn | present | a poet's crown | turf's own name | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Destination | ||||
| 4 | crown | a poet | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | turf | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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