Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 103
It will amuse you now in the midst of all this splendor to think of that time."
Who acts: work · What happens: amuse, think · To what, where: you, midst
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (work), 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 | 3 amuse | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 amuse | aux |
| 3 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 amuse | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 amuse | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 midst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 midst | det |
| 8 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amuse | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 splendor | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 splendor | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 splendor | det |
| 12 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 midst | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 splendor | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 think | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amuse | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 amuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | future | work | you | the midst of all splendor | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | work not said here | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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