Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 36
He took it in just as a mirror takes in a view; and as he worked he whistled a march of Rossini.
Who acts: eye, mirror · What happens: take, work, whistle · To what, where: picture, view, march
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, mirror), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 takes | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 takes | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mirror | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 view | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 view | det |
| 12 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 worked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worked | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 worked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worked | nsubj |
| 17 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 whistled | nsubj |
| 19 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worked | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 march | det |
| 21 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whistled | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Rossini | case |
| 23 | Rossini | Rossini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 march | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | eye | picture | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | a mirror | a view | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in view=Location | ||||
| 3 | work | past | eye | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | whistle | past | eye | a march of Rossini | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Topic |
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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