Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 6
Now that would be a very pretty joke, if the spirit when it came back and looked for the body in East Street, were not to find one.
Who acts: that, pretty joke · What happens: be, come back, look, not find · To what, where: pretty joke, East Street, one
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 (that, pretty joke), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 joke | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 joke | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 joke | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joke | amod |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spirit | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 spirit | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joke | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Street | case |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Street | compound |
| 24 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 find | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | conj |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | that | a pretty joke and the spirit | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come back | past | a pretty joke and the spirit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | a pretty joke and the spirit not said here | East Street | for the body | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for body=Theme in street=Location | |||
| 4 | not find | past | a pretty joke and the spirit not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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