Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 127
It was "the height of rhodomontade," an offer, quite an inconceivable offer--Mr. George came to ask the hand of Emily in marriage!
Who acts: ear, George, hand · What happens: be, come, ask · To what, where: height, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ear, George, hand), 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 | 5 height | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 height | cop |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 height | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 height | det |
| 5 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rhodomontade | case |
| 7 | rhodomontade | rhodomontade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 height | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 offer | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 offer | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 offer | det |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 height | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offer | punct |
| 13 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 offer | det:predet |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 offer | det |
| 15 | inconceivable | inconceivable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 offer | amod |
| 16 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 height | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 George | nmod:desc |
| 19 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 height | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hand | det |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Emily | case |
| 26 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hand | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 height | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | ear | the height and a offer and quite inconceivable offer | of rhodomontade | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | George Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the hand of Emily | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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