Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 92
If she were to be drawn, it ought to be on a soap-bubble.
Who acts: most · What happens: draw, be · To what, where: Miss, soap bubble
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 (most), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 drawn | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drawn | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drawn | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drawn | aux:pass |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bubble | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawn | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bubble | nsubj |
| 9 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bubble | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bubble | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bubble | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bubble | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bubble | det |
| 14 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bubble | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 soap | punct |
| 16 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 bubble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | Miss | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | ought | most | a soap bubble | 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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