Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 42
It was soon understood that his visits were not intended for that lady, though they were the persons who kept up the conversation.
Who acts: visits, persons, sculptor · What happens: understand, not intend, be, keep up, visit · To what, where: house, visits, persons, conversation
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 (visits, persons, sculptor), 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 | 4 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understood | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 understood | advmod |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 intended | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 visits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 intended | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 intended | advmod |
| 10 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 understood | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 intended | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 persons | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 persons | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 persons | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 persons | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 persons | det |
| 19 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 intended | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 persons | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 kept | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 conversation | det |
| 24 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past · passive | house | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not intend | past · passive | sculptor's visits | for that lady | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | visits = visit | the persons | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep up | past | the persons | the conversation | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme | ||||
| 5 | visit | sculptor | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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