Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 4
“I never did see anything so slender and so fine, so soft and so neat.
Who acts: collar · What happens: not see · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 slender | advmod |
| 8 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anything | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fine | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fine | advmod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slender | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soft | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 soft | advmod |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 neat | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 neat | advmod |
| 17 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soft | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | the collar = collar | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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