Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 57
There would have been a fine noise if the General and his wife had seen the feast, but they did not see it.
Who acts: fine noise, General, cheese · What happens: be, see, not see · To what, where: feast
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine noise, General, cheese), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 been | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 been | aux |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noise | amod |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | nsubj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 General | det |
| 10 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 General | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 noise | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | advmod |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 been | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | would · perfect | a fine noise | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the General and General's wife | the feast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feast=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | cheese | feast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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