Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 17
It all looked very lovely, but the old lady could not see very well, and therefore did not get much pleasure out of it.
Who acts: measure, old lady · What happens: look, not see, not get · To what, where: much pleasure, measure
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (measure, old lady), 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 | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lovely | advmod |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | parataxis |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pleasure | amod |
| 23 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | measure | all, lovely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | the old lady | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not get | past · do-support | much pleasure | measure | therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus |
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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