Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 57
The beech woods of Denmark are acknowledged by every one to be very beautiful, but more beautiful still in the eyes of old Anthony were the beech woods in the neighborhood of Wartburg.
Who acts: one · What happens: acknowledge, be · To what, where: beech woods, eyes
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 (one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woods | det |
| 2 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woods | compound |
| 3 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acknowledged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Denmark | case |
| 5 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woods | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acknowledged | aux:pass |
| 7 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acknowledged | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 beautiful | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 acknowledged | conj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 woods | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Anthony | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Anthony | amod |
| 25 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 woods | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woods | det |
| 28 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 woods | compound |
| 29 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beautiful | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 neighborhood | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 neighborhood | det |
| 32 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 woods | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Wartburg | case |
| 34 | Wartburg | Wartburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 neighborhood | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acknowledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acknowledge | present · passive | every one | the beech woods of Denmark | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | every one not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the beech woods | the eyes of old Anthony | in the neighborhood of Wartburg | 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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