Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 21
Then, as the young lads often do, he looked out for the elder girls.
Who acts: young lads, pretty · What happens: do, look out
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lads, pretty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lads | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lads | amod |
| 6 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 looked | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 girls | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girls | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girls | amod |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the young lads | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | pretty | then | for the elder girls | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for girl=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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