Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 78
He was soon able to imitate the gait and manner of everyone in the street.
Who acts: sun · What happens: be, imitate · To what, where: gait
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 able | advmod |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 imitate | mark |
| 6 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gait | det |
| 8 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 imitate | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 manner | cc |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gait | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 everyone | case |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 gait | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 everyone | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sun | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imitate | to-infinitive | sun not said here | the gait of everyone and manner | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gait=Theme |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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