Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 1
Among the books which I had lately lent Ole, was one which had greatly rejoiced and occupied him.
What happens: lend, be, rejoice, occupy · To what, where: books, one, him
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 books | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 books | det |
| 3 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | obl |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lent | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lent | aux |
| 7 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 8 lent | advmod |
| 8 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 books | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lent | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 books | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rejoiced | aux |
| 15 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 16 rejoiced | advmod |
| 16 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 occupied | cc |
| 18 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rejoiced | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 occupied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past · perfect · passive | the books | lately, ole property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | one | among the books | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rejoice | past · perfect · passive | greatly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | occupy | past | him = he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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