Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 14

And did that occupation seem more agreeable to him than watching the wax lights in the temple?

Who acts: occupation · What happens: do, seem, watch · To what, where: wax lights, temple

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (occupation), 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	_	2 did	cc
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 occupation	det
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seem	nsubj
5	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 agreeable	advmod
7	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 agreeable	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 watching	mark
11	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 agreeable	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lights	det
13	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lights	compound
14	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watching	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 temple	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 temple	det
17	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lights	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past					tree rules
2	seem	present	that occupation			agreeable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	watch	gerund	that occupation not said here	the wax lights	the temple		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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