Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 26
Yes, that she could well understand, the beautiful Pu.
Who acts: light · What happens: understand · To what, where: beautiful Pu
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 understand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pu | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pu | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Pu | amod |
| 11 | Pu | Pu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 understand | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | could | light | the beautiful Pu | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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