Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 15
Do you notice the variegated splendour of the walls and windows?
Who acts: you · What happens: notice, variegate · To what, where: variegated splendour
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 notice | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 splendour | det |
| 5 | variegated | variegate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 splendour | amod |
| 6 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 notice | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 splendour | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 windows | cc |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walls | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present · do-support | you | the variegated splendour of the walls and windows | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | variegate | participle | tree rules |
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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