Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 3
The whole story of their meeting at Interlachen, and his brave adventure with the eaglet, were related to them, and they were all very much interested, and as pleased about Rudy and Babette as the miller himself.
Who acts: whole story, godmother, Interlachen · What happens: be, adventure · To what, where: godmother
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 (whole story, godmother, Interlachen), 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 | 3 story | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 related | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 meeting | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Interlachen | case |
| 8 | Interlachen | Interlachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 meeting | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 adventure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 adventure | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventure | amod |
| 13 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Interlachen | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eaglet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eaglet | det |
| 16 | eaglet | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adventure | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 related | cop |
| 19 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 related | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 interested | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 interested | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 interested | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 interested | cop |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 interested | advmod |
| 29 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 related | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pleased | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pleased | cc |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 pleased | advmod |
| 33 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 related | conj |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 Rudy | case |
| 35 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pleased | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Babette | cc |
| 37 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Rudy | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 miller | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 miller | det |
| 40 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pleased | obl |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 miller | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole story of godmother's meeting at Interlachen | godmother | related property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | godmother | interested property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the whole story of godmother's meeting at Interlachen not said here | about Rudy and Babette; as the miller miller | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | adventure | Interlachen | with the eaglet | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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