Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 3

It gives me pleasure to see them dressing and undressing.

Who acts: frame, curtain · What happens: give, see, dress, undress · To what, where: pleasure, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (frame, curtain), 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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleasure	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dressing	nsubj
8	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 see	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 undressing	cc
10	undressing	undress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dressing	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	present	frame	pleasure	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	frame not said here	pleasure not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	dress	gerund	curtain			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	undress	gerund	curtain not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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