Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 134
Had I written a newspaper, how eagerly it would have been read!
Who acts: I · What happens: write, read · To what, where: newspaper, power
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 newspaper | det |
| 5 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 eagerly | advmod |
| 8 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 13 read | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 read | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 read | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 read | aux:pass |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 written | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · perfect | I | a newspaper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | would · perfect · passive | power | eagerly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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