Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 36
It was the rich young Roman girl, the noble maiden; and for the first time he looked at his work with satisfaction.
Who acts: Psyche, remembrance · What happens: be, look, work · To what, where: rich young Roman girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Psyche, remembrance), 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 | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 6 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 maiden | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 satisfaction | case |
| 24 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 work | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Psyche | the rich young Roman girl and the noble maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | remembrance | time | at remembrance's work with satisfaction | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme | |||
| 3 | work | remembrance | with satisfaction | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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