Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 103
There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those that perform them; otherwise quite charming!
Who acts: music, kind · What happens: be, delight, perform, sing · To what, where: charming, kind, music
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, kind), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 songs | cc |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 music | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 songs | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 delight | nsubj |
| 10 | delight | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | acl:relcl |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 those | advmod |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 delight | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 perform | nsubj |
| 14 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 perform | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 charming | punct |
| 17 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 19 charming | advmod |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 charming | advmod |
| 19 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | music and songs of the kind | charming | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | delight | present | the kind | the kind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | perform | present | music | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing | the kind | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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