Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 156
Nobody has invented one yet, and the people will believe that it is an aerial phantom.
Who acts: people, mind · What happens: invent, believe, be · To what, where: Nobody, aerial phantom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mind), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 invented | aux |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 invented | obj |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 invented | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believe | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 believe | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invented | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 phantom | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 phantom | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 phantom | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 phantom | det |
| 16 | aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 phantom | amod |
| 17 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | present · perfect · passive | Nobody | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | future | the people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | mind | a aerial phantom | 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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