Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 74

It was a good book; verses and songs by the old Danish poet, Ambrosius Stub, which are well worth reading.

Who acts: shelf, verses, old Danish poet · What happens: be, verse · To what, where: good book, worth reading

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shelf, verses, old Danish poet), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 book	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 book	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 verses	punct
7	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 book	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 songs	cc
9	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 verses	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 poet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 poet	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poet	amod
13	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poet	amod
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verses	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Stub	punct
16	Ambrosius	Ambrosius	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Stub	compound
17	Stub	Stub	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 verses	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reading	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 reading	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reading	cop
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 worth	advmod
22	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reading	amod
23	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verses	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 book	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	shelf	a good book	tree rules
2	is a	present	verses by the old Danish poet and songs and Ambrosius Stub and worth reading	worth reading	tree rules
3	verse		the old Danish poet		nom verse «communication transitive»: by=agent

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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