Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 101
“I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?”
Who acts: leave, you · What happens: feel, have, send, take · To what, where: goodness, leave, Christianshafen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, you), 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 felt | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | aux |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 queer | advmod |
| 6 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 queer | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sudden | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sudden | det |
| 10 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 all | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goodness | det |
| 16 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 send | mark |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 goodness | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 coach | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 coach | det |
| 21 | hackney | hackney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coach | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hackney | punct |
| 23 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 send | advcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Christianshafen | case |
| 28 | Christianshafen | Christianshafen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present · perfect | your leave = leave | queer property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | would | you | the goodness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the goodness not said here | for a hackney coach | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your leave = leave | Christianshafen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to christianshafen=Destination |
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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