Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 18
This is what the glove thought, or what it might have thought. '
Who acts: This, glove · What happens: be, think · To what, where: glove
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 (This, glove), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glove | det |
| 5 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | aux |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the glove | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | glove | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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