Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 112
The streets were rather irregular, it is true, but still this added to their picturesque appearance.
Who acts: streets, course · What happens: be, add · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets, course), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 streets | det |
| 2 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 irregular | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 irregular | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 irregular | advmod |
| 5 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 irregular | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 added | cc |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 added | advmod |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 added | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 irregular | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 appearance | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 17 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 appearance | amod |
| 18 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 added | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 irregular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the streets | irregular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | course | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | participle · passive | this | still | to streets's picturesque appearance | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to appearance=Co-Patient |
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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