Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 29
They called looking at all these a pleasure.
Who acts: others · What happens: call, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 called | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 pleasure | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 pleasure | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 pleasure | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pleasure | det |
| 8 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | others = other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | others = other not said here | at all pleasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pleasure=Theme |
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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