Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 74
How pretty everything was in that room! a more beautiful apartment could not be found in the whole town of Kjoge; the queen herself could scarcely be better accommodated.
Who acts: everything, room, Kjoge · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: room, beautiful apartment, whole town, queen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (everything, room, Kjoge), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 pretty | advmod |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 everything | amod |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 room | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 apartment | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 apartment | amod |
| 12 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 found | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 room | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 town | amod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kjoge | case |
| 22 | Kjoge | Kjoge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 town | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 queen | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | conj |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 better | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 better | aux |
| 28 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 30 better | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 better | cop |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 queen | acl:relcl |
| 31 | accommodated | accommodate | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 better | cop |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | that room and the queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | could · passive | that room and the queen not said here | a beautiful apartment | the whole town of Kjoge | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | could | Kjoge | the queen not said here | good, scarcely property | tree rules |
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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