Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 34
And she nodded in such a friendly way at the company, that each imagined himself to be the favored person who was to accompany them to Italy. "
Who acts: Charming, that, favored person · What happens: nod, imagine, favor, be · To what, where: gentleman, favored person, Italy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, that, favored person), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nodded | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 way | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 company | det |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 imagined | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 imagined | nsubj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 that | appos |
| 15 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 imagined | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 person | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 person | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 20 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 person | amod |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 imagined | advcl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 accompany | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 accompany | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 accompany | mark |
| 25 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 person | acl:relcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 accompany | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Italy | case |
| 28 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 accompany | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | Charming | at the company; in such friendly way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | imagine | past | that | gentleman | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | favor | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | that not said here | the favored person | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the favored person | Italy | accompany property | tree rules |
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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