Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 28
You look younger than ever this year, and seem well and cheerful.
Who acts: You · What happens: look, seem
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 look | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 year | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 younger | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seem | cc |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 seem | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cheerful | cc |
| 13 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 well | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | You | young property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | You not said here | well property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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