Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 34

I observed the well-grown ears of the hare; it is a pleasure to me to observe how long they are.

Who acts: I · What happens: observe, grow, be · To what, where: grown ears, pleasure, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 observed	nsubj
2	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ears	det
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 grown	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ears	amod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 observed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hare	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hare	det
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ears	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pleasure	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pleasure	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pleasure	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pleasure	det
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 observed	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pleasure	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 observe	mark
19	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 observed	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 observe	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 are	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 long	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	observe	past	I	the grown ears of the hare			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ear=Topic
2	grow	participle				well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		a pleasure	me		tree rules
4	observe	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present				long property	tree rules

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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