Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 75
It was quite charming to watch them at play.
Who acts: noise · What happens: charm, watch · To what, where: deal, play
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 | 4 charming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charming | aux |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 charming | advmod |
| 4 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 watch | mark |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 charming | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 watch | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 play | case |
| 9 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · progressive | noise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | noise not said here | deal | play | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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