Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 25
A fine exterior is what people look at now-a-days.”
Who acts: fine exterior, people · What happens: be, look
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine exterior, people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 exterior | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 exterior | amod |
| 3 | exterior | exterior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 days | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 now | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fine exterior | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | people | day | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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