Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 44
What splendid vistas were then opened to my view!
Who acts: my · What happens: open, view · To what, where: splendid vistas
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 opened | obj |
| 2 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vistas | amod |
| 3 | vistas | vista | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 opened | advmod |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 view | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 view | nmod:poss |
| 9 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | splendid vistas | then | to my view | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme what=Destination | |||
| 2 | view | my | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=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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