Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 16
I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue.
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, have, be · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 black | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 black | cc |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 black | cop |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 black | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 black | case |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blue | cc |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 black | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | all, black property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | 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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