Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 71
What could be the end of such a state of things?
What happens: be · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 end | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 state | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 state | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | the end | of such state of things | 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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