Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 82
He will be a great amusement to us while he remains here."
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, remain · To what, where: great amusement, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 amusement | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 amusement | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 amusement | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 amusement | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 amusement | amod |
| 6 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 amusement | nmod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 remains | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remains | nsubj |
| 11 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 amusement | advcl |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 remains | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 amusement | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 amusement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | boy | a great amusement | us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remain | present | boy | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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