Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 9
It amused her to discover all the feelings of his heart; the strong points and weak ones.
Who acts: tempting · What happens: amuse, discover · To what, where: her, feelings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tempting), 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 amused | nsubj |
| 2 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 amused | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 discover | mark |
| 5 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 amused | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 feelings | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feelings | det |
| 8 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 discover | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feelings | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 points | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 points | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 points | amod |
| 15 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 amused | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ones | cc |
| 17 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 points | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past | tempting | her = she | the strong points and weak ones obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | tempting not said here | all feelings of Englishman's heart | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic |
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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