Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 122
Yes, this is East Street; how beautifully bright and gay it looks!
Who acts: this, watchman · What happens: be, look · To what, where: East Street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, watchman), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 Street | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Street | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Street | cop |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Street | compound |
| 6 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 bright | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 bright | advmod |
| 9 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 10 bright | advmod |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looks | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gay | cc |
| 12 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bright | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | East Street | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | watchman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/122/