Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 47
I am always very much pleased when I see a shooting star, especially in the New Year's night, and then find out for whom the gift of gratitude was intended.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, see, find out, intend, gift · To what, where: shooting star, gift, gratitude
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), 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 | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 see | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 star | det |
| 11 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 star | compound |
| 12 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 night | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 20 night | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Year | det |
| 17 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Year | compound |
| 18 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 night | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Year | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 star | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 find | advmod |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 find | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 find | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gift | det |
| 29 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gratitude | case |
| 31 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gift | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 intended | aux:pass |
| 33 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | always, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | I | a shooting star | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find out | infinitive | then | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | intend | past · passive | the gift of gratitude | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | gift | gratitude | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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