Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 23

This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a peculiar one; but for all that, the fir tree looked very well: it was like a little poetry in the dust-heap; and truly there is dust enough in the streets on moving-day.

Who acts: This, I, fir tree, tinsel, dust, streets · What happens: be, take, not think, look, move · To what, where: view, tinsel, dust heap

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, fir tree, tinsel), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 view	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 view	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 view	det
4	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 taken	nsubj:pass
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 taken	aux:pass
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 view	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 think	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 think	advmod
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 taken	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	obj
16	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 think	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 looked	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 looked	obl
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 all	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 all	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
27	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 view	acl:relcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 well	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 looked	advmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 poetry	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 poetry	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 poetry	cop
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 poetry	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 poetry	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 poetry	amod
38	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 view	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 heap	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 heap	det
41	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heap	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 dust	punct
43	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 poetry	nmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 is	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 is	cc
46	truly	truly	ADV	_	48 is	advmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 is	expl
48	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 view	parataxis
49	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 is	nsubj
50	enough	enough	ADV	_	49 dust	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 streets	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 streets	det
53	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 dust	nmod
54	on	on	SCONJ	_	55 moving	mark
55	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 streets	acl
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 day	punct
57	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 moving	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 view	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a view and a little poetry				tree rules
2	take	might · passive		a view and a little poetry				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	tinsel				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	look	past	the fir tree	a view and a little poetry not said here			for all; well property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme view=Attribute
5	is	past	tinsel		the dust heap		like a little poetry	tree rules
6	be	present	dust in the streets		there		truly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	move	gerund	the streets not said here			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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