Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 15
“A little trip to Fredericksburg would do me no great harm,” thought he; “for I, poor beast of burden that I am, have so much to annoy me, that I don't know what a good appetite is. '
Who acts: little trip, that, I, good appetite · What happens: do, think, be, annoy, not know · To what, where: great harm, me, trip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little trip, that, I, good appetite), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trip | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trip | amod |
| 4 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Fredericksburg | case |
| 6 | Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | iobj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 harm | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harm | amod |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 beast | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 beast | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 beast | case |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 beast | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beast | punct |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beast | amod |
| 23 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 burden | case |
| 25 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beast | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 have | nsubj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | cop |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beast | parataxis |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 much | advmod |
| 32 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 annoy | mark |
| 34 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 much | acl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 annoy | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 know | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 know | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 know | aux |
| 40 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 know | advmod |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 annoy | conj |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 know | ccomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 appetite | det |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 appetite | amod |
| 45 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 what | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 what | cop |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 beast | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 beast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would | a little trip to Fredericksburg | no great harm | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | trip | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | annoy in a quote | to-infinitive | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | a good appetite | 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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