Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 18
My walks to the latter were like bathing-places to my good humor.
Who acts: walks, My · What happens: be, walk, humor
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 (walks, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 walks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 places | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 latter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 latter | det |
| 5 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walks | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 places | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 8 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 places | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bathing | punct |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 humor | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 humor | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 humor | amod |
| 14 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 places | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 places | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My walks to the latter | like bathing places; to my good humor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | My | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | humor | my | nom humor «communication 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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