Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 99
His greatest pleasure was to climb, now and then, to the roof of the noble church, which was built of white marble.
Who acts: greatest pleasure, master · What happens: be, build, please · To what, where: roof
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest pleasure, master), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 pleasure | amod |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 climb | mark |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 now | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 climb | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 then | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 now | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roof | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 17 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 church | amod |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roof | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 built | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 built | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 roof | acl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 marble | case |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 marble | amod |
| 25 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | master's greatest pleasure | now | to the roof of the noble church; climb property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | the roof of the noble church | of white marble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | please | master | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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