Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 10
"This evening the two elder children were a little boisterous.
Who acts: two elder children · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder children), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 boisterous | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boisterous | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 children | nummod |
| 6 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 boisterous | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 boisterous | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boisterous | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 boisterous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the two elder children | evening | a little obl:unmarked; boisterous property | 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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