Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 65
Some one must have slipped it slyly into my pocket for a joke.
Who acts: one · What happens: slip · To what, where: rubbish, pocket
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 (one), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slipped | aux |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slipped | obj |
| 7 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obl | ||
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 joke | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pocket | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | must · perfect | some one | rubbish | my pocket for a joke | slyly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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