Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 18
If any one had a first prize, it ought to have been myself.
Who acts: one · What happens: have, be · To what, where: first prize, myself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ought | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prize | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 prize | amod |
| 7 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ought | nsubj |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 myself | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 myself | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 myself | cop |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 ought | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | any one | a first prize | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | myself | 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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