Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 21
On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack.
Who acts: I, usual New Year · What happens: read, lose, forget, divert · To what, where: book, eve, myself, diversion
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: who acts (I, usual New Year), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 eve | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Year | amod |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 eve | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Year | case |
| 6 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reading | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 reading | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reading | aux |
| 9 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reading | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reading | conj |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 lost | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | obl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 completely | advmod |
| 20 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 15 lost | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgot | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 forgot | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 forgot | nsubj |
| 24 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reading | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Year | nmod:poss |
| 26 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Year | amod |
| 27 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Year | compound |
| 28 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 diversion | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Year | case |
| 30 | diversion | diversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgot | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 namely | punct |
| 32 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 diversion | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hunt | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hunt | det |
| 35 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hunt | amod |
| 36 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 diversion | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Amack | case |
| 38 | Amack | Amack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hunt | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · progressive | I | the book | last New Year's eve | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | I not said here | myself | eve | completely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | forget | past | I | my usual New Year's diversion and the wild hunt to Amack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | divert | my usual New Year | nom diversion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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