Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 33
“'Tis a curious world we live in,” continued he, soliloquizing.
Who acts: we, Tis, pair · What happens: live in, continue, soliloquize · To what, where: curious world
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Tis, pair), 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 | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 world | amod |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | appos |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 live | nsubj |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 world | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 soliloquizing | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soliloquizing | punct |
| 15 | soliloquizing | soliloquize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 continued | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in in a quote | present | we | a curious world not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme world=Location | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Tis | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | soliloquize | gerund | pair | 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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