Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 120
I am as well off as the picture of the congress, in which they take so much pleasure."
Who acts: I, people · What happens: be, take · To what, where: much pleasure
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 off | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 off | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 picture | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 off | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 congress | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 congress | det |
| 11 | congress | congress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picture | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 off | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pleasure | amod |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | as the picture of the congress; off, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | people | much pleasure | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in which=Location |
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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