Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 22
The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.; but what she had yet to perform was something quite unusual.
Who acts: few unimportant commissions, One · What happens: execute, save, have, perform, be · To what, where: messenger, new bonnet, shower, something
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 (few unimportant commissions, One), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 messenger | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 executed | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 executed | advmod |
| 7 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 commissions | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 commissions | amod |
| 10 | unimportant | unimportant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 commissions | amod |
| 11 | commissions | commission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 executed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saving | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 saving | mark |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 commissions | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bonnet | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bonnet | amod |
| 18 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saving | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 shower | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shower | det |
| 21 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saving | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rain | case |
| 23 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shower | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 etc. | punct |
| 25 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 23 rain | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 what | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 what | cc |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 executed | parataxis |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 30 had | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 perform | mark |
| 33 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 something | cop |
| 35 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 what | nsubj |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 unusual | advmod |
| 37 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 something | amod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 executed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | execute | past · perfect · passive | the messenger of Fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | gerund | a few unimportant commissions not said here | a new bonnet | a shower of rain and etc. | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bonnet=Theme from shower=Source | |||
| 3 | have | past | One | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perform | to-infinitive | One not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | something | 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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