Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 57
But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was without genius, etc. This was an excellent opportunity to have said something clever.
Who acts: beginning, This, author · What happens: be, prove, say, opine, want · To what, where: opinion, excellent opportunity, something, invention · 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 (beginning, This, author), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 insignificant | cc |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 end | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 insignificant | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rhine | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Rhine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rhine | det |
| 10 | Rhine | Rhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 insignificant | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 insignificant | advmod |
| 14 | insignificant | insignificant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proved | punct |
| 16 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 insignificant | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opinion | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 opinion | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proved | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 author | det |
| 23 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 want | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 author | case |
| 25 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opinion | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 invention | case |
| 27 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 want | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 genius | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 genius | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 genius | cop |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 genius | case |
| 32 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 insignificant | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 etc. | punct |
| 34 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 32 genius | conj |
| 35 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 opportunity | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 opportunity | cop |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 opportunity | det |
| 38 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 opportunity | amod |
| 39 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 etc. | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 said | mark |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 said | aux |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 opportunity | acl:relcl |
| 43 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 said | obj |
| 44 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 something | amod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 insignificant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | insignificant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prove | participle | beginning's opinion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | beginning | without genius and etc. | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | This | a excellent opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · perfect | beginning not said here | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 6 | opine | beginning | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | want | the author | invention | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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