Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 118
There was something so merry about him, something so truly kind-hearted.
Who acts: something · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 merry | advmod |
| 5 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 merry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 something | punct |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 something | appos |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 hearted | advmod |
| 11 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 14 hearted | advmod |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hearted | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
| 14 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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