Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 72
Yes, there he stood, and was handsome enough to be looked at.
Who acts: George · What happens: stand, be, look
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 (George), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | expl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 handsome | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 handsome | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 handsome | cop |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 handsome | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 looked | aux:pass |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 handsome | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | George | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | enough, handsome property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive · passive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
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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