Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 75
And this was enough to excite Jurgen's imagination.
Who acts: this, Jurgen · What happens: be, excite, imagine · To what, where: imagination
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 (this, Jurgen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 enough | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 excite | mark |
| 6 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enough | advcl |
| 7 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Jurgen | case |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 excite | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | excite | to-infinitive | this not said here | Jurgen's imagination | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | imagine | Jurgen | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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