Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 15
Persons seeking interviews and engagements, all so plainly and naturally stated.
Who acts: Persons · What happens: seek, state · To what, where: interviews, Persons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persons), 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 | Persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Persons | acl |
| 3 | interviews | interview | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seeking | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 engagements | cc |
| 5 | engagements | engagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 interviews | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stated | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 plainly | advmod |
| 9 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 12 stated | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stated | cc |
| 11 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 12 stated | advmod |
| 12 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | Persons not said here | interviews and engagements | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=Theme | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle · passive | Persons | naturally, plainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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