Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 9
He took a delight in reading of the forces of nature, of the sun and the moon; no fairy tale pleased him so much.
Who acts: elder · What happens: take, read · To what, where: delight, reading, forces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 delight | det |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reading | case |
| 6 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 forces | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forces | det |
| 9 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reading | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nature | case |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sun | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sun | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 moon | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 tale | det |
| 21 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tale | amod |
| 22 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | elder | a delight | reading of the forces of nature | of the sun and the moon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent delight=Theme of sun=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | read | the forces of nature | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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