Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 109
It flattered George that the lovely young girl should look up to him, and he thought then that Emily had unusually good abilities.
Who acts: castle, lovely young girl, George, Emily · What happens: flatter, look up, think, have · To what, where: George, good abilities · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, lovely young girl, George, Emily), 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 | 2 flattered | nsubj |
| 2 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flattered | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | aux |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flattered | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 look | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flattered | conj |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 thought | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 23 good | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 abilities | amod |
| 24 | abilities | ability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | past | castle | George | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus george=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look up | should | the lovely young girl | George | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | George | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Emily | good abilities | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ability=Patient |
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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