Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 18
Certainly it was a very good house to look at for amusement.
Who acts: street · What happens: be, look · To what, where: good house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 house | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 house | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 house | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 amusement | case |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 amusement | case |
| 12 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | street | a good house | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | at amusement | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at amusement=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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