Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 13
But what might this something be?
Who acts: something · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 be | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 be | obj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 something | det |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 be | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | might | something | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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