Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 90
It was the most wretched misery, dragged from among the filthiest rags.
Who acts: healthiest · What happens: be, drag · To what, where: wretched misery, filthiest rags
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 (healthiest), 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 | 6 misery | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 misery | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 misery | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 wretched | advmod |
| 5 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 misery | amod |
| 6 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragged | punct |
| 8 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 misery | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 rags | case |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 rags | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rags | det |
| 12 | filthiest | filthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 rags | amod |
| 13 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dragged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 misery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | healthiest = healthy | the wretched misery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drag | participle | the wretched misery not said here | the filthiest rags | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from rag=Initial_Location |
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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