Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 96
I am so certain of it that I could invite that domino to dinner."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: domino
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: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 certain | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 certain | advmod |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 certain | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 invite | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 invite | aux |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 certain | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 domino | det |
| 12 | domino | domino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dinner | case |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | of pressure; certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | could | I | that domino | to dinner | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent domino=Recipient |
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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