Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 89
That's, of course, not true: but 'twould be pretty enough if it were so.
Who acts: That, course · What happens: not be, be
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 (That, course), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 true | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 true | advmod |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 enough | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 enough | cc |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 enough | punct |
| 12 | twould | twould | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 enough | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 enough | cop |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 enough | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 true | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 so | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 so | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 enough | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | enough, pretty property | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | course | so property | 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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