Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 27
“I had thought the head was the most difficult part of the matter--oh! oh!
Who acts: I, head · What happens: think, be · To what, where: difficult part · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, head), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 part | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 difficult | advmod |
| 10 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 part | amod |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 matter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 oh | punct |
| 16 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 part | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 18 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the head | the difficult part | of the matter | 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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