Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 81

His games now were quite different to what they had formerly been, they were so very knowing.

Who acts: games · What happens: be, know

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 (games), 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 games	nmod:poss
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 games	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 different	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 different	advmod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 different	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 been	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 been	aux
11	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	12 been	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowing	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knowing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knowing	aux
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 knowing	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 knowing	advmod
18	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 different	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun's games					different property	tree rules
2	know	past · progressive	games = game						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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