Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 193

How handsome all the people were, and what fine cattle were grazing on the hills and in the valleys!"

Who acts: fine cattle · What happens: graze · To what, where: handsome people, hills

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine cattle), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 handsome	advmod
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grazing	aux
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grazing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grazing	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 grazing	obj
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cattle	amod
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grazing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grazing	aux
13	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 people	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grazing	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 valleys	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 valleys	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 valleys	det
20	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hills	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past · progressive	fine cattle	all handsome people		the hills and the valleys			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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