Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 22
Wasn't this a lady of real delicacy?
What happens: not be · To what, where: lady
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: 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lady | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 delicacy | case |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 delicacy | amod |
| 8 | delicacy | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | this lady | of real delicacy | 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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