Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 40
To think that you could not understand that you were being quizzed.
Who acts: you · What happens: think, not understand, quiz · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 think | mark |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 quizzed | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 quizzed | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 quizzed | aux:pass |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 quizzed | aux:pass |
| 12 | quizzed | quiz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 understand | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not understand | could | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | quiz | past · passive | you | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: subject=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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