Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 25
He was full of life and spirits, and looked so sturdy and well that Dame Bronne said it did her good to see him.
Who acts: Jurgen, Dame, ship · What happens: be, look, say, do, see · To what, where: Dame, Jurgen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, Dame, ship), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spirits | cc |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 life | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sturdy | advmod |
| 12 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 said | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 16 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dame | flat |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | obj |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 did | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 good | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | of life and spirits; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Jurgen not said here | sturdy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past | ship | Dame | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | ship not said here | Jurgen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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