Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 32
Neither he nor his friends noticed in what a monotonous, uniform way one day followed another, for there was always plenty to do and see.
Who acts: Jurgen, one day, plenty · What happens: notice, follow, be, do, see · To what, where: monotonous uniform way, another
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, one day, plenty), 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 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 noticed | cc:preconj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 friends | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 8 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 13 way | det |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 10 | monotonous | monotonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 monotonous | punct |
| 12 | uniform | uniform | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | acl:relcl |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 followed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | parataxis |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 plenty | advmod |
| 23 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 plenty | acl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 see | cc |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 do | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Jurgen | what monotonous uniform way | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | one day | another | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | plenty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | plenty not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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