Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 66
There is too a letter to me; a crumpled letter and the seal broken.”
Who acts: letter · What happens: be, crumple, break · To what, where: seal
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 (letter), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 letter | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 letter | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 10 | crumpled | crumple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 letter | amod |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seal | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seal | det |
| 14 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letter | conj |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seal | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 letter | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 letter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a letter to me | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crumple | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | the seal not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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