Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 2
That was a terrible affair in a hen-roost.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: terrible affair, hen roost
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 affair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 affair | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 affair | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 affair | amod |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 roost | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 roost | det |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roost | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hen | punct |
| 10 | roost | roost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affair | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 affair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a terrible affair | a hen roost | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/2/