Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 88
Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.
Who acts: Nothing, I · What happens: see, be
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 (Nothing, I), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 see | nsubj |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 huts | cc |
| 3 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 huts | amod |
| 4 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 see | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ringstead | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 Ringstead | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Ringstead | case |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 Ringstead | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Ringstead | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Ringstead | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Ringstead | case |
| 16 | Ringstead | Ringstead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | Nothing | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | I | as Ringstead | 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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