Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 62
“It is really unpardonable that there are no lamps here; and it is as dirty as if one had to wade through a morass.”
Who acts: honor, lamps, one · What happens: be, have, wade · To what, where: morass
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 (honor, lamps, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unpardonable | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unpardonable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unpardonable | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 unpardonable | advmod |
| 5 | unpardonable | unpardonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 are | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unpardonable | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 lamps | det |
| 10 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 are | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 dirty | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dirty | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dirty | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dirty | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 dirty | advmod |
| 17 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unpardonable | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dirty | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wade | mark |
| 23 | wade | wade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 morass | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 morass | det |
| 26 | morass | morass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wade | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unpardonable | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unpardonable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | honor | unpardonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | no lamps | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | honor | dirty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wade in a quote | to-infinitive | one not said here | a morass | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through morass=Trajectory |
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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