Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 82
“No--I am far from well,” sighed he; “and yet I drank only one glass of punch; but I cannot suppose it--it was, too, really very wrong to give us punch and hot salmon for supper.
Who acts: unintelligible, glass · What happens: be, sigh, drink, not suppose, give · To what, where: Councillor, one glass, glass, punch, us
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, glass), 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 | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 far | discourse |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 far | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 far | cop |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 sighed | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 far | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 was | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sighed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 drank | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drank | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 drank | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 drank | nsubj |
| 18 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sighed | conj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 glass | nummod |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drank | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 punch | case |
| 23 | punch | punch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glass | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 suppose | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 suppose | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 suppose | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 suppose | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 suppose | advmod |
| 29 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sighed | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 suppose | obj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 was | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 was | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wrong | punct |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 wrong | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wrong | punct |
| 37 | really | really | ADV | _ | 39 wrong | advmod |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 wrong | advmod |
| 39 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 was | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 give | mark |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wrong | advcl |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | punch | punch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 salmon | cc |
| 45 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 salmon | amod |
| 46 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 punch | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 supper | case |
| 48 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 salmon | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | unintelligible | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sigh | past | glass not said here | Councillor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | past | unintelligible | one glass of punch | yet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | |||
| 4 | not suppose in a quote | can | unintelligible | glass | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | glass | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | glass not said here | punch and hot salmon for supper | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient punch=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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