Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 58
Was not the knight Sir Bugge murdered by wicked people?
Who acts: Sir · What happens: not be, murder · To what, where: knight
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 (Sir), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knight | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 knight | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sir | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 murdered | nsubj |
| 6 | Bugge | Bugge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sir | flat |
| 7 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 murdered | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 murdered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the knight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | murder | past | Sir | by wicked people | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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