Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 11
Many of them were very aged; lonely old boys, with strange thoughts and eccentric habits.
Who acts: Many · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 aged | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Many | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aged | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 aged | advmod |
| 6 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 boys | punct |
| 8 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boys | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boys | amod |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 aged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thoughts | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 thoughts | case |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boys | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 habits | cc |
| 16 | eccentric | eccentric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 habits | amod |
| 17 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boys | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many of clerks | lonely old boys and strange thoughts and eccentric habits obl; aged 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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