Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 33
All the eyes were too eagerly seeking for this resting-place, to notice the beauties of nature.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: seek, notice · To what, where: beauties
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eyes | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seeking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seeking | aux |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 eagerly | advmod |
| 6 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 7 seeking | advmod |
| 7 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 place | det |
| 10 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 resting | punct |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 notice | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 notice | mark |
| 15 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 seeking | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beauties | det |
| 17 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 notice | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beauties | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · progressive | all eyes | for this resting place; eagerly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | the beauties of nature | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=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.
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