Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 94
"'Though I'm all ear, Very stupid I appear: Where's my humor?
Who acts: little Anna · What happens: be, appear · To what, where: ear, humor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Anna), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
| 3 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 ear | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ear | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ear | cop |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ear | det |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stupid | punct |
| 9 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 10 stupid | advmod |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ear | appos |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 appear | nsubj |
| 12 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stupid | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 humor | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 humor | advmod |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 humor | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 humor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | little Anna = anna | all ear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear in a quote | present | little Anna = anna | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my humor | 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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