Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 77
“What is the meaning of all this?”
What happens: be · To what, where: meaning
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. 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 | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 meaning | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meaning | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 this | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 meaning | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the meaning | of this | 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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