Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 13
He certainly had not the least idea of what would follow, but he was curious, and curiosity often brings its own punishment.
Who acts: man, curiosity · What happens: have, follow, be, bring, punish · To what, where: least idea, own punishment
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, curiosity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 idea | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 follow | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 follow | obj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 follow | aux |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 idea | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 curious | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 curious | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 curious | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 curious | cop |
| 16 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brings | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brings | cc |
| 19 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brings | nsubj |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 brings | advmod |
| 21 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 curious | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 punishment | amod |
| 24 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brings | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | the least idea | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | would | the least idea | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | man | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | curiosity | curiosity's own punishment | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | |||
| 5 | punish | curiosity | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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