Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 21
And my eye quitted the poor room, for I have so much to see.
Who acts: eye, I · What happens: quitt, have, see · To what, where: poor room, much
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quitted | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | nsubj |
| 4 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 quitted | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 much | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quitt | past | my eye | the poor room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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