Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 37

And then, how funny it was to see the tricks he would perform to amuse them.

Who acts: weather, father · What happens: see, perform, amuse · To what, where: tricks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, father), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 funny	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 funny	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 funny	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 funny	advmod
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 funny	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tricks	det
11	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 perform	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 perform	aux
14	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tricks	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 amuse	mark
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 perform	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 amuse	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 funny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	weather	the tricks	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
2	perform	would	father	the tricks not said here	tree rules
3	amuse	to-infinitive	father not said here	tricks = trick	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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