Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 76
It was, methinks about this season that we had our wedding.'
Who acts: sailor, we, our · What happens: be, have, wed · To what, where: methinks, season
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, we, our), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 methinks | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 methinks | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
| 4 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 season | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 season | det |
| 7 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 methinks | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 season | acl:relcl |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sailor | methinks | season | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | we | this season | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wed | our | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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