Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 16
It looks as if Genius had followed the caprices of a child, in the adornment of these singular temples.
Who acts: It · What happens: look, follow · To what, where: Genius
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 (It), 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 | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 followed | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 followed | mark |
| 5 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | aux |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looks | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 caprices | det |
| 9 | caprices | caprice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 followed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 child | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caprices | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 adornment | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 adornment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 adornment | det |
| 16 | adornment | adornment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caprices | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 temples | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 temples | det |
| 19 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 temples | amod |
| 20 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 adornment | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | It | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | follow | past · perfect · passive | Genius | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme caprice=Attribute |
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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