Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 13
It was he who wrote that nice review of my 'Reflections on Domestic Life.'
Who acts: judgment · What happens: be, review · To what, where: Reflections
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judgment), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrote | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 review | mark |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 review | amod |
| 8 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Reflections | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Reflections | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Reflections | punct |
| 12 | Reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 review | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Life | case |
| 14 | Domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Life | amod |
| 15 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Reflections | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 review | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 review | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | judgment | write property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | review | my Reflections on Domestic Life | nom review «cognition 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: «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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