Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 28
She could not imagine but that in heaven there must be a theatre too.
Who acts: Thorwaldsen · What happens: not imagine, be · To what, where: theatre
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 (Thorwaldsen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 theatre | cc |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | obl |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 theatre | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 theatre | det |
| 13 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagine | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | Thorwaldsen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | Thorwaldsen not said here | a theatre | tree rules |
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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