Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 52

He often talked of his adventures, and the mamma was as simple and eager in her questions as on the first evening they met.

Who acts: power, mamma, waters, name · What happens: talk, be, meet, adventure, question · To what, where: questions, first evening

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 (power, mamma, waters, name), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 adventures	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 adventures	nmod:poss
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 simple	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 simple	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mamma	det
10	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 simple	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 simple	cop
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 simple	case
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talked	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eager	cc
15	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 simple	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 questions	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 questions	nmod:poss
18	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 simple	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 evening	case
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 evening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 evening	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 evening	amod
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 simple	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 met	nsubj
25	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 evening	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	power				of power's adventures; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the mamma		name's questions	evening	simple property	tree rules
3	be		the mamma not said here					tree rules
4	meet	past	waters = water	the first evening not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Co-Agent
5	adventure		power					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	question		name					nom question «communication 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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