Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 65
Strange things sometimes happen in this world.
Who acts: Strange things · What happens: happen · To what, where: world
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: who acts (Strange things), 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 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Strange things | this world | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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