Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 28
It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.
Who acts: Bell, foliage · What happens: be, fatigue, proceed
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bell, foliage), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 thick | advmod |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dense | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dense | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foliage | det |
| 8 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dense | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 dense | advmod |
| 10 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thick | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fatiguing | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fatiguing | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fatiguing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fatiguing | aux |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 fatiguing | advmod |
| 16 | fatiguing | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dense | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 proceed | mark |
| 18 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fatiguing | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bell | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the foliage | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fatigue | past · progressive | Bell | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | proceed | to-infinitive | Bell not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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: «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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