Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 113
Every one could see that we were about to perform a solemn ceremony.
Who acts: one, we · What happens: see, be, perform · To what, where: solemn ceremony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, we), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 about | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 about | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 perform | mark |
| 10 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 about | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ceremony | det |
| 12 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ceremony | amod |
| 13 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perform | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | we | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perform | to-infinitive | we not said here | a solemn ceremony | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme |
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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