Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 122
Your reading in the ancients is, sine dubio, of vast extent?”
Who acts: reading, Your · What happens: be, read · To what, where: sine dubio, ancients
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 (reading, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 reading | nmod:poss |
| 2 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dubio | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ancients | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ancients | det |
| 5 | ancients | ancient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reading | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dubio | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dubio | punct |
| 8 | sine | sine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dubio | compound |
| 9 | dubio | dubio | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 extent | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 extent | case |
| 12 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 extent | amod |
| 13 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dubio | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 dubio | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dubio | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your reading in the ancients | sine dubio and vast extent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | Your | the ancients | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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