Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 17
She used to value a lodging entirely according to its proximity to the theatre.
Who acts: stork · What happens: use, value, accord · To what, where: lodging
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 value | mark |
| 4 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lodging | det |
| 6 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 value | obj |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 value | advmod |
| 8 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 proximity | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 according | fixed |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 proximity | nmod:poss |
| 11 | proximity | proximity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 value | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 theatre | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 theatre | det |
| 14 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proximity | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | stork | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | value | to-infinitive | stork not said here | a lodging | accord lodging's proximity to the theatre; entirely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lodging=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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