Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 48
“I AM betrothed--to the boot-jack!”
What happens: betroth · To what, where: hair comb
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: 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 | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 betrothed | nsubj |
| 3 | AM | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 4 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 jack | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 jack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jack | det |
| 8 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jack | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 boot | punct |
| 10 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betrothed | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 jack | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth in a quote | present · passive | the hair comb = comb | 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: «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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