Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 3
They were playing at "going to bed," for the occasion seemed especially favorable for this sport.
Who acts: children, occasion · What happens: play, go, seem · To what, where: bed
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 (children, occasion), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | aux |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 playing | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 occasion | det |
| 13 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | parataxis |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 16 favorable | advmod |
| 16 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sport | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sport | det |
| 19 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 favorable | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | children = child | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | children = child not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the occasion | favorable property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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