Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 53
It is surprising that we have never heard this before; she will be a great success at court."
Who acts: we, throat · What happens: be, not hear · To what, where: this, great success, court
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, throat), 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 | 3 surprising | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprising | cop |
| 3 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 surprising | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 success | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 success | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 success | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 success | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 success | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 success | amod |
| 17 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surprising | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 success | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprising | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | surprising property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not hear | present · perfect | we | this | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | future | throat | a great success | court | tree rules |
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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