Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 51
Another thing they wondered at was, that they were able without trouble to understand the language.
Who acts: things, thing · What happens: wonder, be, understand · To what, where: thing, language
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, thing), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wondered | nsubj |
| 4 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thing | acl:relcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 wondered | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 understand | mark |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understand | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | things = thing | another thing not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | another thing | without trouble; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | another thing not said here | the language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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