Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 3
Conversation followed, which, after a while, began to prove very entertaining.
Who acts: Conversation · What happens: follow, begin, prove
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conversation), 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 | Conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 while | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 while | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 while | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 while | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prove | mark |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 entertaining | advmod |
| 14 | entertaining | entertaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prove | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Conversation | while | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Conversation not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | Conversation not said here | entertaining property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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