Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 53
One would have thought that he had come from a dinner where many toasts had been given.
Who acts: Judgment · What happens: think, come, give · To what, where: One, dinner, many toasts
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 (Judgment), 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 | One | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 dinner | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dinner | det |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 given | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 toasts | amod |
| 14 | toasts | toast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would · perfect · passive | One | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Judgment | a dinner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dinner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | many toasts | vn give-13.1-1 «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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