Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 21
I had a great deal of information from my father, and I have noticed a great deal myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, notice, deal · To what, where: great deal, information
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 information | case |
| 7 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deal | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 information | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 noticed | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 noticed | aux |
| 15 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deal | amod |
| 18 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticed | obj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 deal | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a great deal of information from my father | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | notice | present · perfect | I | a great deal myself | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | deal | information from my father | nom deal «act 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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