Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 114
It was a real pleasure to look at the castle, and right well was the castle looked at accordingly.
Who acts: castle · What happens: be, look · To what, where: real pleasure, castle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleasure | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasure | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pleasure | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasure | amod |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasure | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 castle | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasure | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 accordingly | case |
| 20 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a real pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | at the castle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at castle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the castle | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | the castle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at accordingly=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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