Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 1
You ought to have known our aunt; she was charming!
Who acts: she · What happens: know, charm · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 known | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | aux |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 charming | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 charming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 charming | aux |
| 11 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 known | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | ought · perfect · passive | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | charm | past · progressive | she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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