Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 50
He wanted to look at this player-stuff from the other side.
Who acts: Judgment · What happens: want, look
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 (Judgment), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 stuff | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 stuff | det |
| 7 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuff | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 player | punct |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuff | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Judgment | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Judgment not said here | at this player stuff from the other side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stuff=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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