Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 76
It was the heart of a most respectable rich man, whose name is certain to be found in the Directory.
Who acts: least, name · What happens: be, find · To what, where: heart, Directory
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 (least, name), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 respectable | advmod |
| 8 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 certain | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 certain | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 certain | cop |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heart | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 found | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 certain | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Directory | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Directory | det |
| 21 | Directory | Directory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | least | the heart | of a respectable rich man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | name | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive · passive | name not said here | the Directory | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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