Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 36
Heaven disposes, but I shall be astonished."
What happens: astonish · To what, where: Heaven disposes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disposes | compound |
| 2 | disposes | dispose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 astonished | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 astonished | aux:pass |
| 8 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | shall · passive | Heaven disposes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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