Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 4
Among other subjects, it turned upon the events of the middle ages, which some persons maintained were more full of interest than our own times.
Who acts: Conversation, middle ages · What happens: turn, maintain, be · To what, where: other subjects, persons
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, middle ages), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 subjects | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 subjects | amod |
| 3 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 subjects | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 events | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 events | det |
| 9 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ages | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ages | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ages | compound |
| 13 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 events | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 full | nsubj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 persons | det |
| 17 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | nsubj |
| 18 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 persons | acl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 full | amod |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ages | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 interest | case |
| 23 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 times | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Conversation | other subjects | upon the events of the middle ages | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme among subject=Source upon event=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | maintain | participle | some persons not said here | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the middle ages | time | of interest; full property | tree rules |
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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