Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 42
No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year's day.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: imagine, see, enter · To what, where: one, beautiful things, glory
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 one | acl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 imagined | obl:agent |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 what | nsubj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 what | cc |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seen | obl |
| 14 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 entered | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 entered | aux |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 grandmother | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 year | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 New | punct |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 day | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 year | case |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | participle | no one not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | grandmother | beautiful things not said here | beautiful things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | enter | past · perfect · passive | glory | day | with grandmother's grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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