Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 7
How sweetly they sing there; it is quite a pleasure to listen to them!
Who acts: trees · What happens: sing, be, listen · To what, where: pleasure, trees
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: who acts (trees), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 sweetly | advmod |
| 2 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 4 sing | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleasure | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sing | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleasure | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleasure | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 pleasure | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pleasure | det |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 listen | mark |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pleasure | csubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 listen | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | trees = tree | there | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | quite pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | trees = tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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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