Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 4
It was, indeed, delightful to walk about in the country.
Who acts: midst · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst), 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 | 6 delightful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delightful | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 delightful | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 6 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 walk | mark |
| 8 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delightful | advcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 walk | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | midst | delightful, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | midst not said here | the country | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |
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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