Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 2
How delightful it was to see fresh places and to mix with strangers!
What happens: see, mix · To what, where: fresh places
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delightful | advmod |
| 2 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 delightful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 places | amod |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mix | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mix | mark |
| 11 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 strangers | case |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mix | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fresh places | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mix | to-infinitive | with strangers | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with stranger=Co-Patient |
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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