Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 63
How magnificent was the sight from this height!
What happens: be · To what, where: magnificent sight, height
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 magnificent | advmod |
| 2 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sight | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 height | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 height | det |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the magnificent sight | this height | tree rules |
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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