Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 19
It is a good thing we have caught you."
Who acts: deed, good thing · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: good thing, we
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deed, good thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | aux |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | deed | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · perfect · passive | a good thing not said here | we | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme |
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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