Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 51
This story was the tinsel thread, the most humorous recollection of Jurgen's life.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, recollect · To what, where: tinsel thread, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thread | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thread | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thread | det |
| 5 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thread | compound |
| 6 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recollection | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 recollection | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 humorous | advmod |
| 10 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 recollection | amod |
| 11 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thread | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 13 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Jurgen | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recollection | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this story | the tinsel thread | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recollect | Jurgen's life | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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