Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 13
A Moment of Head Importance--An Evening's “Dramatic Readings”--A Most Strange Journey
Who acts: Evening · What happens: read
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evening), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Moment | det |
| 2 | Moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Importance | case |
| 4 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Importance | compound |
| 5 | Importance | Importance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Moment | nmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Readings | punct |
| 7 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Evening | det |
| 8 | Evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Readings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Evening | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Readings | punct |
| 11 | Dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Readings | amod |
| 12 | Readings | reading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Moment | appos |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Readings | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Journey | punct |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Journey | det |
| 16 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 Journey | amod |
| 17 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Journey | amod |
| 18 | Journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Moment | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | a Evening | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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