Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 46
The two Chinese were quite enchanted with the appearance of the singing-bird.
What happens: enchant · To what, where: two Chinese
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 Chinese | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Chinese | nummod |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 enchanted | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 enchanted | advmod |
| 6 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 appearance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 appearance | det |
| 9 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchanted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 12 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 singing | punct |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appearance | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | the two Chinese | with the appearance of the singing bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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