Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 12
There was an old lady's glove, too: I wonder what that was thinking of?
Who acts: glove, I, that · What happens: be, wonder, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glove, I, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glove | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 lady | case |
| 7 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 too | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 wonder | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wonder | nsubj |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 thinking | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 thinking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thinking | aux |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wonder | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thinking | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old lady's glove | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · progressive | that | vn wish-62 «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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