Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 39
It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not.
Who acts: castle, Tukey · What happens: be · To what, where: seaman, midshipman
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, Tukey), 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 seaman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seaman | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seaman | det |
| 4 | seaman | seaman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 personage | punct |
| 6 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 personage | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 personage | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 personage | amod |
| 9 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seaman | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 little | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 little | advmod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 personage | amod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 midshipman | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 midshipman | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 midshipman | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 midshipman | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 midshipman | det |
| 18 | midshipman | midshipman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 little | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 midshipman | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 midshipman | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 midshipman | det |
| 22 | midshipman | midshipman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seaman | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 was | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 midshipman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 was | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seaman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | castle | a seaman but a midshipman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Tukey | a midshipman | 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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