Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 172
It was her pet idea to see a great city, so she flew to Copenhagen.
Who acts: nest, maid · What happens: be, see, fly · To what, where: pet idea, great city, Copenhagen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, maid), 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 | 5 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 idea | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 idea | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idea | compound |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 idea | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 city | amod |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 idea | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Copenhagen | case |
| 16 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nest | maid's pet idea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a great city | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | maid | Copenhagen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to copenhagen=Result |
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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