Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 21
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
Who acts: Nobody · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 sensitive | nsubj |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 princess | amod |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobody | conj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sensitive | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sensitive | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 sensitive | advmod |
| 9 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 sensitive | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sensitive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | Nobody | as that; sensitive 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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