Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 38
No one could possibly have foretold this.
What happens: foretell · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 foretold | aux |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 6 foretold | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 foretold | aux |
| 6 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 foretold | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foretold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | could · perfect · passive | no one | possibly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme this=Eventuality |
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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