Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 6
It's quite incredible, and I really don't know what is coming next when that man dips his pen into me.
Who acts: number, I, man · What happens: be, not know, come, dip · To what, where: pen · 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 (number, I, man), 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 | 4 incredible | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 incredible | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 incredible | advmod |
| 4 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 incredible | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 dips | mark |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dips | nsubj |
| 19 | dips | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dips | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 dips | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 incredible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | number | incredible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dip | present | that man | man's pen | into me | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pen=Theme into i=Destination |
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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