Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 50
Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.
Who acts: place · What happens: hasten away, prove, seem, fit · To what, where: little magician, powers, magician, place
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 pleased | discourse |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 magician | amod |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 magician | acl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prove | mark |
| 9 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hastened | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 powers | det |
| 11 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prove | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spectacles | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spectacles | det |
| 14 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 powers | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 theatre | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 theatre | det |
| 17 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spectacles | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fitted | punct |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | seeming | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 place | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seeming | obl |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 fitted | advmod |
| 25 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pleased | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 trial | case |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 trial | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trial | det |
| 29 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fitted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten away | participle | the little magician not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | the powers of the spectacles in the theatre | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | gerund | no place not said here | magician | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fit | participle · passive | no place | for such trial | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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