Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 52
It was dirty work, but they took great pleasure in it. "
Who acts: couple, boys · What happens: be, take · To what, where: dirty work, great pleasure, couple
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, boys), 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 | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | cop |
| 3 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | acl:relcl |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pleasure | amod |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | couple | dirty work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | boys = boy | great pleasure | couple | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in it=Location |
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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