Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 100
But he did not enjoy it; how, indeed, could he enjoy anything when he was "stove sick?"
Who acts: Man · What happens: not enjoy, enjoy, be · To what, where: wind, anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 enjoy | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 enjoy | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enjoy | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 enjoy | advmod |
| 5 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 how | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 enjoy | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 how | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 enjoy | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enjoy | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 enjoy | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 enjoy | nsubj |
| 14 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enjoy | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 stove | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stove | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stove | cop |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stove | punct |
| 20 | stove | stove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 enjoy | advcl |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stove | xcomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 enjoy | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not enjoy | past · do-support | Man | wind | indeed property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | enjoy | could | Man | anything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Man | sick, stove property | tree rules |
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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