Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 97
It was a mental relief when Sophy, one of her friends, came to pay them a visit.
Who acts: hand, Sophy · What happens: be, come, pay · To what, where: mental relief, friends
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 (hand, Sophy), 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 | 5 relief | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 relief | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 relief | det |
| 4 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relief | amod |
| 5 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 7 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Sophy | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sophy | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 relief | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pay | mark |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pay | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 visit | det |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 relief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hand | a mental relief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Sophy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | Sophy not said here | friends = friend | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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