Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 53
The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the speaker much applauded.
Who acts: speaker · What happens: recite, applaud · To what, where: humorous poem
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 (speaker), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poem | amod |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recited | aux:pass |
| 5 | admirably | admirably | ADV | _ | 6 recited | advmod |
| 6 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 applauded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 applauded | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 speaker | det |
| 10 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 applauded | nsubj |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 applauded | advmod |
| 12 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recited | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past · passive | the humorous poem | admirably property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | applaud | past | the speaker | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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