Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 56
It is not very pleasant, certainly; I should imagine it is something like being married; for here I am stuck fast."
Who acts: more, I · What happens: not be, imagine, be, marry · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 certainly | punct |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 imagine | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 imagine | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 imagine | aux |
| 11 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasant | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 something | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 something | cop |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 imagine | obj |
| 15 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 17 married | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 something | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuck | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 here | case |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 stuck | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stuck | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stuck | cop |
| 23 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasant | conj |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 stuck | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuck | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | more | certainly, pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | should | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | more | something | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | gerund · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | I | fast, stuck property | 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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