Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 55

His games, too, were quite different; they were not so childish.

Who acts: games · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (games), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 games	nmod:poss
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 different	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 games	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 games	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 games	punct
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 different	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 different	advmod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 childish	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 childish	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 childish	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 childish	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 childish	advmod
14	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 different	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	glass's games					different property	tree rules
2	not is	past	games = game					childish 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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