Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 61
But for all that it was pleasant, especially for the old people, who watched them with great joy: all that their young ones did suited them.
Who acts: quarrelling, young ones · What happens: be, watch, do, suit · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarrelling, young ones), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | cc |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | mark |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pleasant | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pleasant | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasant | cop |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 people | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 watched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 watched | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 watched | nsubj |
| 16 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasant | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watched | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joy | amod |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watched | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 suited | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 suited | det:predet |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 did | mark |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ones | amod |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | advcl |
| 28 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasant | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 suited | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | quarrelling | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | people | for the old people; with great joy | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | people's young ones | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suit | past | quarrelling not said here | people | tree rules |
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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