Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 56
Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury.
Who acts: little garden · What happens: consider · To what, where: this, metropolis
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garden), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 garden | advmod |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 garden | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garden | amod |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 considered | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 considered | aux:pass |
| 9 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 garden | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 metropolis | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 metropolis | det |
| 12 | metropolis | metropolis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 considered | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Copenhagen | case |
| 14 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 metropolis | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 luxury | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 luxury | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 luxury | amod |
| 18 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 considered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | such little garden not said here | this | the metropolis of Copenhagen | as a great luxury | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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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