Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 87
I should not much mind examining the little glimmering things somewhat nearer, especially the moon; for that would not slip so easily through a man's fingers.
Who acts: much mind, that · What happens: examine, not slip · To what, where: little glimmering things, fingers
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 (much mind, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mind | amod |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | examining | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mind | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 9 | glimmering | glimmering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | compound |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 examining | obj |
| 11 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 12 nearer | advmod |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 things | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moon | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 16 moon | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nearer | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slip | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 slip | mark |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 slip | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 slip | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 slip | advmod |
| 22 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | advcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 easily | advmod |
| 24 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 slip | advmod |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 fingers | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 man | case |
| 29 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 slip | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | gerund | much mind not said here | the little glimmering things | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not slip | would | that | a man's fingers | easily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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