Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 47
Fond of using the knife!"
Who acts: Fond · What happens: use · To what, where: knife
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: who acts (Fond), 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 | Fond | fond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 using | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 using | mark |
| 3 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 using | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 using | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 using | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | Fond | the knife | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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