Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 58
It was not the 'Judgment of Solomon' that was performed; no, a real court of judgment was held upon the stage."
Who acts: life, Solomon · What happens: not be, perform, hold · To what, where: Judgment, Solomon, real court, stage
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 (life, Solomon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Judgment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Judgment | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Judgment | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Judgment | det |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Judgment | punct |
| 6 | Judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Solomon | case |
| 8 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Judgment | nmod |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Solomon | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 performed | aux:pass |
| 12 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Solomon | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 court | punct |
| 14 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 court | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 no | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 court | amod |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 judgment | case |
| 20 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 court | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 held | aux:pass |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Judgment | acl:relcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 stage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stage | det |
| 25 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Judgment | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Judgment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | life | the Judgment | of Solomon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | perform | past · passive | Solomon not said here | Solomon | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | a real court of judgment | the stage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon stage=Location |
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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