Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 56
The beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity: he even found the idea original and effective.
Who acts: beginning · What happens: praise, find, begin · To what, where: idea, 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 (beginning), 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 | 2 beginning | det |
| 2 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 praised | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 poem | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 poem | det |
| 5 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 praised | nsubj |
| 7 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 generosity | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 generosity | amod |
| 10 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 praised | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 found | advmod |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 praised | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 effective | cc |
| 19 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 original | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | the beginning of the poem | with great generosity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | beginning | the idea | original property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Topic | |||
| 3 | begin | the poem | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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