Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 45
The good folks come probably from a masquerade!”
Who acts: good folks · What happens: come · To what, where: masquerade
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 (good folks), 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 | 3 folks | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folks | amod |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 masquerade | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 masquerade | det |
| 8 | masquerade | masquerade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the good folks | a masquerade | probably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from masquerade=Initial_Location |
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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