Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 17
If I were a cock, I should despise her."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, despise · To what, where: cock, hen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 cock | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cock | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cock | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cock | det |
| 5 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 despise | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cock | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 despise | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 despise | aux |
| 9 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 despise | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 despise | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 despise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | a cock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | despise | should | I | hen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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