Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 26
The punctuation of the book, in particular, is very eccentric.'
Who acts: punctuation · What happens: be, punctuate · To what, where: book
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punctuation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 punctuation | det |
| 2 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eccentric | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 punctuation | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 particular | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 particular | case |
| 8 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 book | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 punctuation | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eccentric | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 eccentric | advmod |
| 12 | eccentric | eccentric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 eccentric | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 eccentric | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the punctuation of the book | eccentric property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | punctuate | the book | nom punctuation «event transitive»: of=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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