Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 53
It was a pleasure to hear Alfred describe anything.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: be, hear, describe · To what, where: pleasure, Alfred, anything
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 (Alfred), 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 pleasure | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasure | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pleasure | det |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasure | csubj |
| 7 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hear | xcomp |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 describe | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Alfred | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | describe | infinitive | Alfred not said here | anything | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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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