Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 84
The scenes are always arranged that they look best from the King's side."
Who acts: scenes · What happens: arrange, look · To what, where: scenes
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 (scenes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scenes | det |
| 2 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 arranged | advmod |
| 5 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | advcl |
| 9 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 look | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arranged | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | present · passive | the scenes | always property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | look | present | scenes = scene | from the King's side; well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from side=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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