Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 65
He was unable to find the bridge: there was no railway either.
Who acts: unintelligible, railway · What happens: be, find · To what, where: bridge
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 (unintelligible, railway), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unable | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unable | cop |
| 3 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unable | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unable | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 railway | det |
| 12 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 was | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | unintelligible | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | unintelligible not said here | the bridge | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no railway | there | either property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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