Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 43
What a strange sensation it was to have the cork drawn for the first time!
Who acts: strange sensation · What happens: have, draw · To what, where: cork
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange sensation), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 sensation | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sensation | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sensation | amod |
| 4 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cork | det |
| 10 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cork | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | what strange sensation | the cork | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | the cork not said here | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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