Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 42
He looked very jovial, did little work, and had the more holidays. "
Who acts: fourth · What happens: look, do, have · To what, where: little work, more holidays
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 jovial | advmod |
| 4 | jovial | jovial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 holidays | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 holidays | amod |
| 14 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | fourth | jovial property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | fourth not said here | little work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | fourth not said here | the more holidays | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient |
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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