Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 11
The inhabitants of that icy region were assembling for dance and festivity; but, accustomed to this glorious spectacle, they scarcely deigned to glance at it. '
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: assemble, accustom, deign, glance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants), 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 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 assembling | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 region | det |
| 5 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 region | amod |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inhabitants | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 assembling | aux |
| 8 | assembling | assemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dance | case |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assembling | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 festivity | cc |
| 12 | festivity | festivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dance | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 accustomed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 accustomed | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 accustomed | punct |
| 16 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 assembling | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spectacle | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 spectacle | det |
| 19 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spectacle | amod |
| 20 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accustomed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deigned | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 deigned | nsubj |
| 23 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 24 deigned | advmod |
| 24 | deigned | deign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 accustomed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 glance | mark |
| 26 | glance | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 deigned | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 glance | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 assembling | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 assembling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · progressive | the inhabitants of that icy region | for dance and festivity | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accustom | participle | to this glorious spectacle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deign | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glance | to-infinitive | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | at spectacle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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