Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 125
But indeed there was something else, something very astonishing and startling.
Who acts: something · What happens: be, astonish, startle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 was | nsubj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 something | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 something | punct |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 something | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 astonishing | advmod |
| 10 | astonishing | astonish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 something | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 startling | cc |
| 12 | startling | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 astonishing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | something | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | astonish | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | startle | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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