Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 19
It contained everything that could delight the eyes of a child.
Who acts: chamois · What happens: contain, delight · To what, where: everything, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamois), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contained | nsubj |
| 2 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 contained | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 delight | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 delight | aux |
| 6 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 delight | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | chamois | everything | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | delight | could | the eyes of a child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
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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