Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 30
They all enjoyed the comedy so much, that they gave up all thoughts of the tea party, and only carried out their idea of intellectual amusement, which they called playing at men and women; and there was nothing wrong about it, for it was only play.
Who acts: wires, nothing, idea · What happens: enjoy, give up, carry out, call, play, be · To what, where: comedy, thoughts, idea, intellectual amusement, tea party · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wires, nothing, idea), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 enjoyed | advmod |
| 3 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 comedy | det |
| 5 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enjoyed | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 enjoyed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gave | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enjoyed | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 gave | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 thoughts | det |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 party | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 party | det |
| 17 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 party | compound |
| 18 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thoughts | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gave | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 carried | compound:prt |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 idea | nmod:poss |
| 25 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 amusement | case |
| 27 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 amusement | amod |
| 28 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 idea | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 called | obj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 called | nsubj |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 amusement | acl:relcl |
| 33 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 called | xcomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 men | case |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 playing | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 women | cc |
| 37 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 men | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 was | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 was | cc |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 wrong | cop |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 43 wrong | nsubj |
| 43 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 44 | about | about | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wrong | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 play | punct |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 play | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 play | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 play | cop |
| 50 | only | only | ADV | _ | 51 play | advmod |
| 51 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wrong | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past | wires = wire | the comedy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comedy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | wires = wire | all thoughts of the tea party | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source | ||||
| 3 | carry out | participle | wires = wire not said here | wires's idea of intellectual amusement | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | call | past | wires = wire | intellectual amusement | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | play | gerund | wires = wire not said here | at men and women | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | nothing | about amusement; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | idea | for play | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | think | the tea party | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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