Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 30
And the boy gazed on the large, old bell with the deepest interest.
Who acts: boy · What happens: gaze
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bell | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bell | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bell | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 large | punct |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bell | amod |
| 10 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 interest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 interest | det |
| 13 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 interest | amod |
| 14 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bell | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the boy | on the large old bell with the deepest interest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bell=Theme |
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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