Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 39
The young man attributed a great deal of meaning to this sigh.
Who acts: young man · What happens: attribute, deal · To what, where: great deal, meaning
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 (young man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attributed | nsubj |
| 4 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attributed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 meaning | case |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sigh | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 sigh | det |
| 12 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attributed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | past | the young man | a great deal of meaning | to this sigh | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deal | meaning | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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